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Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal (www.theregister.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

The bitcoin miners have hopefully dropped off because they were chewing up gobs of energy too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    I thought they were totally just using flare gas and renewables ;) 🙄

    But my understanding for real is that ai data centers are just the same hardware as buttcoin but more of it and organized. The venture capitalists finally got what they wanted, blowing their wad on Nvidia.

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