“Authorized”

we are so fucked

I have my doubts they will be able to operate this at required temperature. It's hard to even keep a single room cool with 24000btu window unit and no AI in it . They should put all these things in Canada near the hydroelectric on the pnw coast where the temps are always cool and electricity is cheap and waste heat is useful for the green house industry

"If only we power Ai enough, it can save us from climate change."

Superinteligent Ai: You should stop emitting so much CO².

"Wow, amazing. Turns out Ai is a woke environmentalist "

It's fine guys, I switched to paper straws.

These fucking assholes.

"Its fine everyone. Don't worry about the terrifying changes in climate, or the habitability of the planet... we're making billions over here."

"Authorized" is one of the most evil parts.

This is more than the annual carbon output of all private jets in 2023 (19.8 m tons)

Amazon's AI is hands down the worst fucking one.

You can't go to their website, or their app, without having it shoved down your throat. It's always annoying and intrusive and it gets in the way of searching for goods.

And it's doing this now? Fucking insane. This is ALL insane.

Makes me wonder what the punishment should be if any of that CO2 crosses the border.

Time to build some siege engines.

How good are the intake air screens on these? Good enough to stop drone dropped sandblasting media?

They could have gone for solar, but no, ride or die fossil fuels on all of these projects.

This is is ridiculous. There is no way 7GW in a single facility is going to happen any time soon. First off, the gensets don't exist. There's a 3-year waiting list right now for gas turbines.

The largest gas power plant is 8.5GW in the UAE and it took 40 years to build.

There's no way this is going to happen. It's going to get delayed indefinitely

Slightly better than switching to paper straws is not buying from Amazon. I know it doesn't make a real difference because they'll never lose enough customers to notice, but at least YOU aren't supporting them. Also, yes, I know that AWS is a bigger part of the business, and literally unavoidable on the internet. I did say "slightly".

What ended all human life... was it a lack of food? Nope. Was it war? Shockingly, no. Twas global warming. Despite decades of warning, the humans marched forward to their own extinction. Year over year, found more efficient ways to accelerate their demise. Many even cheered it on! Their greatest invention was "AI". A largely useless bit of tech that ruined ecosystems and pushed the planet to a point it couldn't support humans.

Was it preventable? Could the humans have survived? Yes. But it wasn't profitable to do that. They believed it better to go extinct rich than live not rich.

Our boring dystopia continues apace

Queue the Homer talking to Bart meme: largest source of pollution so far

The scale of that fucking madness

Turbines aren't boiler machines (with steam). Therefore they're less efficient as they can't take advantage of waste heat. Already more CO2 per WH.

I'm sure the nitrogen dioxide emissions will be pretty high too.

I wonder if the general populace enjoys having the AI companies prepare nitric acid in their lungs.

It's worth the earth dying so I can get my useless crap in a hurry. /s

How much CO2 is produced, when such center burns week one, I wonder...Would it be worth it, to save from worse faith?

I really wouldn't give two shits about all that CO₂ if it wasn't for the fact that air pollution knows no borders.

Absolutely fuck Amazon

"We're committed to 2040 net-zero goals."

"But how do you plan on getting there?"

"We're committed to it."

Btw, net-zero is just a greenwashing term. Allowing emissions while balancing them on some spreadsheet in some obscure way is not the same as reducing emissions. It allows more pollution while pretending something is being done about it. Hey, like good old recycling.

The company remains committed to 2040… er… no- 2050, no- 2060 goals

Who the fuck authorized this?

This is Texas. Ammo is cheap. A bullet hole through the later stages of the compressor or combustion sections of a turbine engine will make an expensive mess.