The bitcoin miners have hopefully dropped off because they were chewing up gobs of energy too.
Comment on Climate goals go up in smoke as US datacenters turn to coal
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 months 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.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 months ago
I thought they were totally just using flare gas and renewables ;) 🙄
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
china is also building lots of coal plants to sustain the datacenters.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 5 months 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.