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Dr Ingrid MđȘ
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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%
I cannot state strongly enough that data centre overdevelopment and the shockingly toxic technology of generative AI should be both be intensely opposed, rather than welcomed on the grounds that they're taxed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
cui bono? Do the beneficiaries - people getting public money and cookies to implement a new policy - like politicians and police and weapons-surveillance industry types - give a fuck about victims of state violence? Criminalised women. People who use drugs. Children born into poverty. Do they care?
Piketon will
- Kill between 9 and 90 people
- Have between $145m and $1.3bn in health costs
- Cause between 7k and 45k asthma attacks
- Will use the equivalent of 4.5m to 6m households of power
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Pretty soon people will also understand that the planned data centres will render all current emissions reduction efforts worthless.
Actual emissions will RISE.
Twenty years of climate policy debatesâŠ
And then thereâs the water usageâŠ
People are going to hate the new AI data centres even more when they realise the Albanese govt wonât tax the gas industry because they donât want to scare off the foreign investors who need gas to power the data centres.
