"Last month, environmental nonprofit Sierra Club estimated that upcoming AI data centers could release 2.1 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2030, wiping out nearly 15 years worth of greenhouse gas reduction efforts."
That's... disappointing and impressive.
Yes, let's kill the planet to create something nobody wants. Peak capitalism.
It’s hilarious that this is not necessary at all. There are many data centers that use fully renewable energy, recycle 99% of their water etc. They are a bit more expensive to build. Like making them fully “green” would be a tiny portion of the budget (which obviously mostly goes to ungodlily expensive memory and chips).
Like if the US was a minimally serious country, it would have regulations prohibiting this kind of stuff cause the alternative is just a bit more expensive and is already super feasible and easy to do. There are whole companies that their entire business is building green renewable data centers.
These US AI guys are just ghouls and I suspect they actually want to destroy the world? Idk.
Like there is NO reason other than evilness to not pollute the soil and groundwater around them, to not recycle the water used for cooling, to not use wind turbines and solar panels and batteries…. Literally NO reason.
this is beginning of their crimes
Burning single-use fossil fuels to power hyper advanced advertising machines is some real cyberpunk shit
They've already purchased an unbelievable amount of compute capacity from Grok/SpaceX who are notorious for running effectively the most environmentally unfriendly data centers on the planet. This really shouldn't surprise anyone.
I would love to see a law pushed federally for all new and in progress data centers to be mandated to use renewable resources.
Imo it won't even slow anything down, it'll largely just ramp up the transition to renwables.
shocking
No, it's entirely predictable.
A texan city is about to run out of water completely. Dunno which one, but i remember seeing someone pointing out they've been in emergency mode since 2022-2023 and that hasn't been solved at all since.
It's such a stupid choice. Saving money in the shortest term - all the way between the CEOs office making the decision, to the PR person... And then we're all cooked.
"Oh but we don't want to be a large bank lf solar panels, wind and batteries... That would be too expensive".
The governments who allowed these companies to make the choice should be raked over the coals.
God I hope the new Governor blocks this shit in January
I really don't understand why the industry needs so many data centers. Why do they all keep needing to build them, and why can't they work out an arrangement for sharing?
Anthropic don't own data centres, they rent their compute. Investing in energy infrastructure for other companies would be short sighted to say the least. One of those hate the game not the player situations
$3.4 billion deal with a Texas-based energy company called OnePWR Solutions.
the deal will provide gas-fired engines to provide AI data centers with off-grid electricity.
the “largest known single purchase of power-generation equipment by an AI lab.”
Anthropic went from worrying about AI alignment to aligning itself with a $3.4 billion gas engine order. Apparently the existential risk they couldn’t tolerate was a data center waiting for a grid connection. The planet, meanwhile, can just keep buffering.
I can't wait until all those worthless AI companies go bankrupt
Climate actions were starting to take effect, so the reptilians had to come up with a new way to keep terraforming our planet. Because surely no human would be this evil towards it's own species?
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