Anyone else notice how fast everyone stopped giving a shit about "climate goals" when AI popped up?
Now its a race to the gold, everything else be damned.
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From the post:
>Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades.
Companies such as Google and Amazon have ramped up construction of new data centers as they race to compete in artificial intelligence. The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements to electric grid transmission systems.
Anyone else notice how fast everyone stopped giving a shit about "climate goals" when AI popped up?
Now its a race to the gold, everything else be damned.
Archive: https://archive.today/hvBhj
From the post:
>>Consumers in some regions of the country are facing higher electric bills due to a boom in tech companies building data centers that guzzle power and force expensive infrastructure upgrades.
Companies such as Google and Amazon have ramped up construction of new data centers as they race to compete in artificial intelligence. The facilities’ extraordinary demand for electricity to power and cool computers inside can drive up the price local utilities pay for energy and require significant improvements to electric grid transmission systems.
