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US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges (news.slashdot.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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I'm sorry, I just don't seem to follow these train of comments.

Each reply just seems kind of random and not related to what I'm saying.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

AI is not an excuse to burn fossil fuels. AI exploded and it's energy consumption exploded, there's lots of data to back it up. You're saying if not for AI there would be some other excuse. What excuse would that he? Would fossil fuel industry have to invent something that would consume this much energy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

AI is not an excuse to burn fossil fuels

AI is not a valid reasons to burn more fossil fuels

It is definitely being used as an excuse to do so.

And if it wasnt, something else would be.

I'm sorry if I'm still not explaining that in a clear way, but I don't think we're going to resolve this at this point if it still isn't.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Microsoft and other big tech already power their data centers with their own renewables, and they will continue to do so. In the latest quarterly report from MS they admit they didn't anticipate AI boom to be this big and so they have to buy more power externally. This is not good for them and they wouldn't do this on purpose. They will catch up because it's profitable thing to do.