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If these data centers manage to build some additional power generation before the bubble pops, from clean sources, these few years of stupid (in that regard) just might be worth it
All I see is data centers ramping up is coal and other non-renewable resources.
thats what GROK/XAI is essentially doing right now.
Fucking methane generators poisoning kids in Tennessee. Every time you use grok you give a poor child in Memphis COPD. Guess the demographic if the neighborhood they built their death center in too.
They can't and won't; they're busy making the AIs learning fascism from their data inputs and access to cameras and medical records.
Ok... But there are stories out there about data centers and power generation regardless of what they're using that AI for.
From 30 seconds of searching: https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/ai-data-centers-desperate-for-electricity-are-building-their-own-power-plants-291f5c81
Still won't make it "worth it". Our environment is already dead. The only people who could consider it "worth it" are doomerist accelerationist capitalists.
seems like its costing billions per year just o maintain these datacenter, might be per data center too.