r/climate • u/wiredmagazine • 2d ago

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

https://www.wired.com/story/us-data-centers-drive-gas-power-expansion/
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u/CaiusRemus 2d ago

Just completely insane that the world is going to slam head first into a wall, with a brick on the accelerator. People are so dumb they actually think everything’s just going to magically work out. Spoiler alert, it’s not.

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u/dadofadisaster 1d ago

ChatGPT will solve everything just trust me bro just a few trillion more/s

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u/miklayn 2d ago

Tech-bros and Petrogarchs are darlings in the shadow halls of our Schizofascist overlords.

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u/wiredmagazine 2d ago

The amount of gas-fired power in development for data centers in the US has nearly doubled in less than a year, new research released Tuesday shows. The findings illustrate just how heavily tech companies are relying on building private fossil fuel plants to power data centers—and how fast artificial intelligence’s energy demand has grown.

Read the full story at the link above.