Amazon’s new AI data center is so enormous that it is likely to be the largest single source of carbon emissions in the US (futurism.com)

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On par with entire countries, including Switzerland, Ireland, and Bulgaria.

Incredibly sad to see as we battle record-breaking heatwaves. We need to stop supporting these companies...

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 6 hours ago

But will it be built?

Apparently loads of those datacenters are announcements just to prop shareholder value up.

It takes at least 5-6 Years to make a power source for a datacenter this size (cooling isn't quick either), if you go with the simplest (coal/gas), or so I have understood.

I'm of course not an expert so feel free to chime in!

[-] keiko@fedia.io 1 points 3 hours ago

I'm of course not an expert so feel free to chime in!

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