Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal

• null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What ?

  I didn’t “discard” it, it’s just not a pertinent inclusion. I also didn’t mention geothermal power, or wheelbarrows.

  It doesn’t matter what type of power is plugged into data centres. Turning them off would reduce coal power consumption.

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  • Tetsuo@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I live in a country that produces 70+% of its energy through nuclear reactors.

    Sure we are definitely an exception but turning off datacenters where I live wouldn’t change anything about coal.

    To be clear I’m not advocating for nuclear energy nor am I saying it’s a bad option.

    Every country has a different energy mix, some more “carbon efficient” than others let’s say but it is not only revolving about coal and renewables.

    Anyway, I think it’s fairly clear to me the datacenters won’t shutdown anytime soon even without AI it’s gonna be a major consumption of energy in any country. So I think nuclear should definitely at least considered as an option and to some extent be part of any energy mix. I think everyone knows that only renewables is not really a realistic scenario. Coal obviously is the worst option in any amount. So yeah, I was surprised that you didn’t mention it that’s it. I do think it’s very much relevant to the topic of the ever increasing energy consumption we are all gonna face in the future. This post would probably not even exist if we shutdown datacenters but I suppose you meant it as shutting down only processing power toward AI. But still we will need more datacenters in the future no matter what.

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    • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Dude. You seem incapable of understanding the point I was trying to make.

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