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Pippin
Pippin friendica

I've been seeing a lot about how solar power is being installed at record rates, and how cheap it's getting, and also a lot about how many "AI" datacentres are using so much power, and realising that low power prices (or anticipated low prices) are perhaps encouraging those datacentres to mushroom.

So it's still quite true that capitalism is why we can't have good things.

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Matt Sqwrl
Matt Sqwrl • mastodon (AP)
Although for intensive computer workloads, the idea of ‘chasing the sun’ to run where there’s excess power would be cool
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Twig
Twig • mastodon (AP)
no doubt about that. Too many crypto farms springing up next to hydroelectric dams, sucking up all the cheap power coming out of them and forcing the rest of the region to turn to fossil fuels. It’s all disgusting.
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Aatheus
Aatheus • mastodon (AP)
There's a reason some of the big AI proponents want to get peering arrangements with nearby nuclear power plants. SO THIRSTY
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