Atomo@lemmy.world to Fuck AI@lemmy.world · 2 days agoThe Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensiblefuturism.comexternal-linkmessage-square39linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareweps@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoI’ve been working in data centers since 2008. What happened? What changed? They used to be incredible. I haven’t been in a data center in a couple of years.
minus-squaretrackball_fetish@lemmy.wtflinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoWhat changed is that they’re now GPU and RAID farms for enslaving humanity. Remember what the NSA did? It’s x100 worse.
minus-squareBakkoda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoDo it and pay the fines later. If that nets a profit than the system needs to be changed.
minus-squareKairos@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoThey got bigger and got owned by more evil companies.
minus-squarecorbindallas@fedinsfw.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agotrump and the dismantling of every regulatory body trump happened
minus-squarePlatypus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days ago Companies are exploiting regulatory loopholes as they construct new facilities powered by pollutant-spewing onsite gas plants. The grid can’t handle the buildout, so new data centers are operating unregulated gray-market power plants.
minus-squareMajoran@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoDoes that effectively also mean that the real energy consumption might not be measured accurately?
I’ve been working in data centers since 2008.
What happened? What changed? They used to be incredible.
I haven’t been in a data center in a couple of years.
What changed is that they’re now GPU and RAID farms for enslaving humanity. Remember what the NSA did? It’s x100 worse.
Evaporation cooling is cheaper
Do it and pay the fines later. If that nets a profit than the system needs to be changed.
They got bigger and got owned by more evil companies.
trump and the dismantling of every regulatory body
trump happened
The grid can’t handle the buildout, so new data centers are operating unregulated gray-market power plants.
Does that effectively also mean that the real energy consumption might not be measured accurately?