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4·3 days agoThat sadly doesn’t work terribly well (we burn a lot of methane producing fertilizer for the corn) and doesn’t scale up to the world.
32·3 days agoUm what? Self-hosting search that actually covers the internet requires way more resources than people are likely to have. There are things you can self-host, but global internet search is not one of them.
This is what happens when companies are incentivized to turn on data centers fast above any kind of environmental protection or efficiency goal.
2·6 days agoYou clearly need to buy mummies whose blessings and curses were written and wrapped along with the body using serif fonts.
Most lemmy instaces let you choose the font
13·8 days agoReturns on their billion dollar bribe
Water that salty is corrosive. You can’t just use it for datacenter cooling (or running a power plant) without removing the salt at considerable cost. It’s cheaper to bribe politicians to transfer fresh water into their use than it is to desalinate that and use it.
I’m not looking for a silver bullet. But part of success is demand avoidance. And creating demand at the scale the datacenters are doing is going to make it far far harder to get to zero.
Partial offset doesn’t stabilize temperature. It’s going to need to be 100%
They’re not even trying though
A single new datacenter in the pipeline from Amazon is going to consume above 7000MW. Landfill can and should be burned in useful ways, but it’s not going to supply anything like what the tech industry is planning to use.
Brownfield development would be perfect for data centers, but it’s slower and costs more.
There isn’t undesired water or electricity sources available at anything like the scale the AI companies want though; these things use truly huge amounts of energy
That’s really insane, given how people I know left Venezuela because of a lack of food
Be really nice to build some local community so that you can both self host and have this kind of support if you need it
What’s actually working for transport is battery-electric. About half the heavy trucks in China sold in the past few months have been done like that.
My expectation is that we’ll see solar to hydrogen used for decarbonizing the chemicals industry, but not much else, largely because batteries have gotten so cheap and so energy dense.