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>As well as of course the evisceration of as much pesky environmental regulation as their lobbyists can get their hands on As if any tech company would build a
by notTooFarGone 2y ago
>As well as of course the evisceration of as much pesky environmental regulation as their lobbyists can get their hands on
As if any tech company would build anything but solar. You don't need to bend the rules here and you don't need too much storage either. You just need cheap land, a fuckton of solar to get your peaks to your base consumption and you already do 60% of energy renewable. Anything above that is battery storage and more land.
It's such a no brainer in cost and from an operations PoV the only thing that is easy enough to go into power.
- aguaviva 2y agoAnd yet we have: Internet data centers are fueling drive to old power source: Coal - https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/data-centers-internet-power-source-coal/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/dat... From coal plant to data center: Old power stations are being repurposed - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/08/from-coal-plant-to-data-center-old-power-stations-are-being-repurposed/ https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/08/from-coal-plant-to-data-c... Internet data centers are driving the resurgence of coal power - https://www.dailyclimate.org/internet-data-centers-are-driving-the-resurgence-of-coal-power-2667806746.html https://www.dailyclimate.org/internet-data-centers-are-drivi... Meanwhile, both solar and wind also have their environmental externalities (from the mining of raw materials, to the sheer amount of land that needs to be put under shade for solar farms, and the noise pollution caused by wind farms), and correspondingly, tons and tons of rule for these companies to bend.