Comment on US Senator proposes bill permitting AI data centers to bypass federal power rules via off-grid energy infrastructure development

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Honestly, if they made it a requirement that it has to be 100% clean energy, this could actually be a net positive, but of course they won’t because it’s Trump and he’s got a boner for coal and oil.

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  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    boner bribe

    Fixed that for you

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• nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Any available gas turbines are already being sucked up. Old commercial jet engines are a very popular choice right now.

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• Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Saw something about the EPA rolling back air quality regulations too

  Good times

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  • miguel@fedia.io ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For perspective, the one they're proposing to build in southern NM has an estimated pollution output larger than the entire El Paso region.
    https://www.riograndesierraclub.org/project-jupiter/

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• Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I dunno, at least some of planned datacenters ARE doing that. For example an absolutely ENORMOUS Solar Farm is being built in Cheyenne, Wyoming for another Microsoft DC. For a previous MS DC a big ass wind farm was built. Meta is building a fuck you sized DC in Cheyenne and recently inked a deal with Terrapower for a natrium powered reactor.

  I dislike having to defend these assholes but what the Green Energy thing has been done, is being done, and they have definite plans to do more of it.

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• PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Natural gas fuel cells were a pretty popular choice there for a while. Bloom energy has been marketing their shit towards datacenters for as long as I can remember, and as far as I know they use a similar mechanism to hydrogen fuel cells where you’re just stripping electrons off of the methane molecules.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its still natural gas. Getting it out of the ground is an ecological disaster.

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    • PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s also a byproduct of petroleum refinement and an even worse greenhouse gas than CO2, so breaking it down into CO2 and water is better than just releasing it. Might as well make some lemonade.

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