This rush to build out natural gas generation will have serious consequences for the climate. Early boosters of the data center boom suggested that new AI facilities would draw power from renewable sources such as solar and wind farms. While that has happened in some cases, developers are also rapidly locking in years of additional fossil fuel usage. An analysis from researchers at Cornell University found that the build-out could add as much as 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere by 2030, equivalent to the annual emissions of around 10 million passenger cars.
AI really is coming to burn this place to the ground while they massacre critical thinking planet wide.
In case you’re like me and can’t stand sites that blast you with cookie pop ups/etc, here’s a link to a non-yucky archive of the article.
https://archive.is/aoUAj
The irony of using an archiver to get the grist from Grist without the chaff is not lost on me. Thanks for the link!