Data centers misestimated lied about their carbon footprint. Also about their consumption of resources

Climate damage related to AI workloads could exceed $50 billion by 2030

It's a sad state of affairs that even when talking of extinction level threat, it is still quantified in monetary terms. Unsurprising, considering it's written by Allianz.

"Do you know how much money our investors will lose if the human race goes extinct???"

I would change the title to "Data centers emitting more CO2 than claimed"

And some people think AI could help solve climate change…

The people who thought data centers bad sides weren't that bad for the environment are the same people who thought Epstein Island was just a nice place for boats to stop for lunch.

I still do not understand why they don’t use heat exchange loops, like we figured out for nukes 75 years ago

Than thought? No. Ill wager they knew.

I thought for a second they're emitting CO2, it's their footprint or the grids energy sources

You're going to get scolded over the carbon impact of streaming tv.

"Marking ones own homework" is a translation of a proverb in my own language which I found fitting here

Oh, how very unexpected

...or cared to admit til caught

Obviously this is bad, but there is definitely some irony in the fact that if the government and all the evil lobbyists that are pushing these data centers would have significantly less issues if they'd actually invested in clean energy earlier like we were all already asking them to years ago.

But instead all that BS about "clean coal" is coming back to bite them in the foot now that they actually want to use that "clean" energy

"286 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025" wow literally nothing.

Wanna bet they didn't ask people with realistic exlectations what they thought emissions would be?

I've been saying for years that the numbers on climate change are always worse than anything you can see or predict

I fucking told you so, dumbfucks. You can kill your masters, or I'm defecting to team apocalypse because I'm sick if the fucking gas lighting, and there's nobody worth saving.