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Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States (futurism.com)
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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 80 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Wait, it does not run on solar, even partially? JFC.

edit: yep.

Amazon has confirmed its investment in a massive gas-burning power plant in Texas, meant to supply up to 7.65 gigawatts of energy to a planned data center in Pecos County. Should it come online as planned, the plant’s 35 turbines would be allowed to spew 33 million tons of CO2 a year, the NYT notes, which would easily make it the largest single fount of emissions in the country.

It would also be in stark defiance of Amazon’s stated climate goals, which center on reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.

🤦

Does greed know no end in this country?

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

7.65 GW × 24 hrs / 6 kW/m2/day = 30.6 km2 of just solar panels, just for this one data center

The solution isn't solar, the solution is don't build it

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It‘s universally known by now that new mega data centers are generally powered by gas. And it‘s the same everywhere in the world. Destroying them and prohibit exorbitant wealth are measures that are long overdue already. We genuinely do not need all that calculating power. Not for this high of a price.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 1 day ago

No, we really don't.

[–] turdburglar@piefed.social 17 points 1 day ago

it does know an end. in fact, the end just pled guilty to stalking ending in death in new york.