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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days ago

America's Largest Grid Operator to Data Centers: Bring Your Own Power or Get Turned Off First…

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 30 days ago
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    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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      Good thing the EPA exists and hasn’t been gutted and disassemble over the last 50 years… Oh wait.

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      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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      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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    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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      Much more imoortant!

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      Can we have a dildo factory boom instead?

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

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          Well no the price of dildo ramming would decrease cuz of the increased supple.

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            Pretty sure everyone wants dildoes as supple as possible

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    AI;DR

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      It is at least positive how forthright they are about its use in their process.

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      deleted by creator

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    Data center’s own power source:

    aircraft turbine

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      Aw man, we’ve already got a shortage of servicable CF6s

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

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