Solar to dominate energy by 2035, but AI data centers will keep fossil fuels in business

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe if we massively overbuild renewables, and then the AI bubble pops, electricity demand will suddenly drop, leaving us with an almost completely renewable-powered grid, since there’s no longer enough demand to spin up the fossil fuel plants?

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• Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Peak demand hours set to change to 9-5 being peak

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• hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok but… gif of “mr. Choppy.” A robot that cuts power cables. The gif ends with the text “fuck your datacenter.”

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• FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just remember, every time you use Google AI, you’re helping encourage these data centers to continue operating. I switched over to Ecosia as a search engine and browser, and have disabled the AI. Every little bit counts.

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• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Jevon’s paradox

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  • BlackJerseyGiant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ^^^ This exactly. “We’re going to reduce our carbon footprint by deploying Gigawatts more gas and coal, and aren’t these solar panels Shiny!”

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• MyOpinion@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Time to ban data centers.

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  • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Datacenters are how the internet works

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Time to stop calling hyperscale GPU farms “data centres” then. There’s a difference between housing a few exabytes of spinning disks with enough compute to run S3 APIs and PHP servers and enough GPU power to continuously statistically correlate all the world’s data to better generate slop from.

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