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America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First… (www.gadgetreview.com)
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[–] 44 points 2 months ago (5 children)

They are the least essential service, so that makes total sense. Powering a dildo factory is more important than an AI data center.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Can we have a dildo factory boom instead?

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    The price of RAM wouldn’t increase, but the price of ram would.

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    • [–] 77 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    In turn, data centers will just pollute the air with their natural gas and diesel generators. It’s a lose/lose proposition.

    https://www.itpro.com/infrastructure/data-centres/gas-powered-data-centers-whats-behind-the-boom

    https://www.fastcompany.com/91265352/california-needs-more-data-centers-but-builders-are-using-a-legal-loophole-to-power-them-with-diesel

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Let's call methane and such what they are - fossil gas. The "natural" gas green-washing campaign has done enough harm as it is.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    It's natural gas as opposed to coal gas - if you heat coal in an anerobic environment, it is refined into a flammable liquid + gas. Fun little science demonstration

    They used to use it for lights everywhere, and it left soot all over the walls. Silly putty was invented to clean it off of wallpapers, but then they added dye and it became silly

    I don't have a problem rebranding it as fossil gas, but the name natural wasn't green washing. It did occur naturally, and it is a hell of a lot cleaner than what was used before

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Point of order, you're thinking of play doh, not silly putty.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You're right, I was thinking of play dough

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Silly Putty I think was an attempt to make plastic that failed and they went "well it's kind of fun to play with, we'll sell it as a toy?"

    wikis the pedia

    Rubber. It was an attempt to make synthetic rubber during WWII rationing. Found to be pretty useless but kind of a fun toy.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    There's only like three companies in the world that make gas turbines. They're already operating at capacity.

    While power grids do constantly grow, they don't grow about 20% year over year. It simply isn't possible to increase the power supply at the pace the AI companies are expecting in their data center plans. So they're buying up all of these chips but there isn't going to be electricity to power them.

    The AI bubble is just completely disconnected from reality.

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    • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Data center's own power source:

    aircraft turbine

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    • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    AI;DR

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    • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    why wait til mid next year, hopingthe people forget about it by the time of the elections in '28.

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    [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    It's not even a political anti-data center statement or wish to not pump consumer's electric bill to high heaven. The US grid is already overloaded and could collapse if you strap too many multi gigawatt energy sippers into it.

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