One of the few things everyone seems to agree on.

Finally looked in a mirror eh?

I hear ya, it is fucking annoying.

Idk, sounds like a you problem fam.

Good thing?

How would that look? Wouldn’t inventing in and using renewables be producing their own electricity? Or do you mean force them to be tied to the grid but also force them to force the grid to use renewables.

What type of generation are you envisioning here? What type of cooling systems?

Yeah I’m not versed in the subject enough to say/think you’re wrong necessarily. I do know the general slant Lemmy’s population has against it though.

Yeah, tough to have a good faith conversation about it.

I’m not necessarily in favor of data centers. That said, every time I see something like this I just wonder when we are going to start hearing about data centers being built in poor countries powered exclusively by coal and zero regulation. I really have no idea what a good outcome looks like but playing ultra hardball seems unwise. I’m very poorly educated on data centers and AI in general. But, I am an expert in electrical generation. I know we could do it pretty clean, at least relative to coal/heavy oil. I don’t think stopping data centers built in the US will magically cease the boulder rolling in the AI direction. Seems like the money is at its back so its going to happen, just a matter of when, where and how dirty.