nosuchanon comments on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AI and the investment around it are literally the only thing holding up America’s economy right now. If you take the artificial growth and the vast amounts of investment that are being pumped in AI development data centers, the US economy has barely grown half percentage point.

No surprise that they are going to power this beast at all costs until it falls apart along with the US economy.

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[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

No surprise that they are going to power this beast at all costs

I mean, they could use their fascist power grab to drive through the infrastructure work to expand power transmission lines needed to support a modern economy, renewables, and yes more datacenters

Additional coal is just the easiest way since we already have century old power lines bringing that power where it’s needed

Yes, in this case, coal might be easiest, cheapest, fastest because we can continue to neglect infrastructure. It’ll fall apart on someone else’s administration

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[–] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Typical. So basically, they’re gonna turn America into Texas. Their power grid is famously shitty and has been neglected for decades due to Republican control of the government. They are constantly kicking the can down the road for some other administration to deal with it.

Everyone time there’s even a slight dusting of snow anywhere in Texas the power grid shuts off and people freeze to death. But Texas refuses to fix the power grid and nationalize because it would mean investing and bringing their shitty substandard power grid up to modern standards.

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