"We want data centers, but it can't be the Wild Wild West of data centers and crypto miners crashing our grid and turning the lights off."
"We" do? Who is the we here? Have they done a referendum asking people if they want a new Data Center in the neighborhood causing more frequent power blackouts and raising the rates on their electricity? Everybody Knows we don't have enough power generation capacity to handle what the Billionaires have planned for us, but "we" want them so "we" have to pay for them.
And while big tech firms may be committed to using green energy, the Washington Post reports that, since they run on the same grid as typical power consumers, these data centers tend to eat up much of the renewable energy available, leaving power providers to source dirty energy to fill in gaps.
WHY do they run on the same grid? Let them build their own fucking grid! Put some solar panels on the fucking roof! Power it with Green Hydrogen fuel cells! Build a Fusion Reactor next door!
https://www.salon.com/2024/06/22/power-hungry-ai-boom-making-power-grids-dirtier-less-reliable/
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Power-hungry AI boom making power grids dirtier, less reliable
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