▲ 760 ▼ Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal (www.theregister.com) submitted 1 year ago by cyrano@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world 148 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [+] masterspace@lemmy.ca -6 points 1 year ago* my brother in christ what are you saying? you know that rich people are the biggest polluters? Yes, and what do you think is happening as other countries rise out of poverty? We have way too many humans on this planet to support everyone having a middle class lifestyle. you know how ai datacenters literally destroy our planet? Yeah, right now. But if you tried to render 4k videos in 1990 it would also take a full data center and enormous amount of power, but computer chips can do this thing where they get smaller and orders of magnitude more efficient over time, which is how every single phone can do it on 5W of usb power today. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] masterspace@lemmy.ca -6 points 1 year ago* my brother in christ what are you saying? you know that rich people are the biggest polluters? Yes, and what do you think is happening as other countries rise out of poverty? We have way too many humans on this planet to support everyone having a middle class lifestyle. you know how ai datacenters literally destroy our planet? Yeah, right now. But if you tried to render 4k videos in 1990 it would also take a full data center and enormous amount of power, but computer chips can do this thing where they get smaller and orders of magnitude more efficient over time, which is how every single phone can do it on 5W of usb power today. permalink fedilink source parent