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so now we are speed-running global warming there are now record setting gas turbine sales instead of solar/nuclear * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8ziQCWK
by ck2 2mo ago
so now we are speed-running global warming
there are now record setting gas turbine sales instead of solar/nuclear
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8ziQCWK1w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8ziQCWK1w
and for what?
so we can have totally useless "AI" customer service agents where you still have to demand to talk to a human to properly get a problem solved
- watwut 2mo ago[flagged]
- lbrito 2mo agoYou haven't used the latest models! AGI is just around the corner! China! Russia!
- metalsiliconYT 2mo ago[flagged]
- ck2 2mo agohow about the non-stop methane burnoff for months ("flare") from all the oil fracking fields in the US that can be seen from SPACE for the past DECADE * https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/10/20/americas-oil-boom-is-visible-from-space/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/10/20/ameri... * https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/gas-drilling-north-dakota-79810/ https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/gas-drillin... that's already raising the local area temps, why not put that wasted fuel to work instead? build the datacenters literally next to the fracking fields, absolutely no-one there to complain, they all moved away already from the toxic air/water and there's already unlimited fuel
- ipsum2 2mo agoYou described the company Crusoe. They've been building datacenters that do exactly what you said. https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/blog/understanding-the-problem-crusoe-solves https://www.crusoe.ai/resources/blog/understanding-the-probl... > Crusoe has built their business around turning flaring from an operational and regulatory risk for oil and gas companies, as well as an existential risk for our planet, into a multi-solve solution. Crusoe doesn’t just mitigate flaring emissions. They capture the gas, convert it into energy, and use it to power computing infrastructure. Edit: Crusoe sold its bitcoin-mining operation including the Digital Flare Mitigation business to NYDIG in 2025, so the above may be inaccurate.
- ck2 2mo agowow Crusoe deserves more press if everything they are saying checks out flaring has upset me for a decade, even if it was just used for bitcoin mining it would have at least done something vaguely beneficial compared to just raising earth temperature but if it can help solve the "AI" energy demand boom that would be huge because it's not like this country is ever going to stop fracking at $80-$100 a barrel now
- hedgehog 2mo agoMethane has a stronger greenhouse effect than CO2 (until it decays into CO2) so it's probably better to burn it and do no work than just vent it, and better still to leave it in the ground.
- tgv 2mo agoThat doesn't make the slightest difference for two reasons: 1. Natural gas still produces CO2, which is a climate change driver. (And, since burning more of it will only increase global temperatures, the data center will have more trouble losing its excess heat. 2. Even if a data centre uses a totally clean energy source, it's still excess usage. That clean energy could have been used elsewhere. Until all energy is clean, usage by unnecessary sources is a net negative.
- metalsiliconYT 2mo ago[flagged]
- platevoltage 2mo agoIf only there were energy sources that didn't involve burning anything. Perhaps that nuclear reaction in the sky that wakes us up every day?