china is also building lots of coal plants to sustain the datacenters.
Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days agoYes but data center growth prior to AI was manageable. There isn’t a grid on the planet (except maybe china?) which can support the growth of AI data centers.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 day ago
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
China already has 200% the capacity relative to their demand. They’ve been growing solar fast enough to beat very high 8%+ electricity consumption growth last year, and can probably keep the pace.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The bitcoin miners have hopefully dropped off because they were chewing up gobs of energy too.
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 days ago
I thought they were totally just using flare gas and renewables ;) 🙄