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New AI Data Center Is So Huge That It'll Generate the Heat of 23 Atomic Bombs Every Single Day (futurism.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74351191

A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta could generate dozens of atomic bombs worth of heat every day.

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[–] 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I mean... You're not wrong. Earth will be fine. It's already had global heating cycles beyond the scale of what we're looking at.

The small, teensy, insignificant problem is that the last time it happened was one of the Great Extinction events that wiped out most live on the planet.

And the heating also happened about 100-1000× more slowly, iirc—over the timescale of millennia, not decades.

But life will survive. And new species will eventually evolve to fill the sparsely populated planet left behind by the disaster.

The Great Filter is coming for us.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago* (1 child)

    You’re not wrong.

    I was sarcastically quoting those galaxy brains. Of course they're technically correct, that was my whole point.

    I have taken to talking about saving the ecosphere instead.

    I'd still prefer to avoid a human made extinction event.

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