Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
BoycottPro@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Data center owners should work as aggressively as possible to build solar and wind capabilities. It would be best for all parties involved. They’d get cheaper energy and it would benefit everyone by not polluting as much.
Even if they cannot power all of their energy needs with renewables they could build some every year.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I have a personal conspiracy theory that part of the AI hype is pushed by dirty energy companies. Most American politicians say we can’t remove dirty energy plants until we have enough clean energy to replace them. AI (and some other technologies) increase energy demand in a way that counters any clean energy production being built, such that the dirty energy production will always be needed unless we’re willing to shut some things down.
Politicians say we can’t scale down production below demand, so dirty energy companies benefit most from inflating demand instead of shutting down and being replaced with clean alternatives.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 days ago
You guys know Murphy’s law that says anything that can go wrong will go wrong? I think it was an indirect law about capitalism that extends enshittification. “If anything can be enshittified for profit, it will be.” and that includes fucking up infrastructure and dare I say progress.