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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Does our habitat have that time?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Oh, we are fucked. But I also won’t pretend that mostly solar-powered data centers, which don’t emit greenhouse gases, are in any way a remotely meaningful contributor to our climate crisis.

If a bull is bucking around in my house, I’m not going to worry about the faucet slowly dripping in the bathroom. I want to deal with the bull, first.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

User name checks out. I appreciate your veracity.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

At least where I live, data centres are taking up green power that was supposed to go to households