As someone living in NE Ohio, I’m very very VERY unhappy about this. We don’t need more air quality issues when we’re already seeing high rates of asthma, etc. And we sure as hell don’t need more damn AI.
Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio.
Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands
As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
