The only good news here is that while data centers are being “built” it appears they are taking forever to actually finish. By the time these things actually open there won’t be the demand for the compute, if it ever existed to begin with. Large amounts of this demand is speculative.
Ed Zitron
Data centres powering AI could demand as much new electricity as cars & houses until 2040, per Greenpeace analysis.
It's not just the size of the energy demand, but also its immediacy: forecasts for data centre energy use jumped 6x over the last year
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