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- climate@slrpnk.net
- nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
- cross-posted to:
- climate@slrpnk.net
- nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
My impression is that this is a PR push, designed to avoid having to invest in renewables, and let them keep on burning gas and coal, rather than something likely to come to fruition.
Conveniently, the heat from all this power being generated and subsequently used in the data centres doesn’t count as emmissions. Twats.
Fairly so - it isn’t emissions, and does not contribute to the problem in a meaningful way.
The reason why emissions are dangerous is because they trap solar heat at large enough scales to change the global climate. Server farm heating isn’t really anywhere near contributing at that scale.