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VCs, Very Smart (lemmy.world)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There is absolutely no green way to extract all the material needed to build a datacenter.

Isn't this just energy dependent lol? Renewable energy and safe mining practices is all it takes. Let alone space mining, dyson spheres, cold fusion, even regular nuclear.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Energy is only a fraction of the issue and easily solvable, I'm not a 100% certain but I think that some mines are even powered with renewables energy.

    The main issue is tailings, millions of cubic meters of toxic, sometime radioactive, full of heavy metals mud. The tailings are piled up behind dams that regularly breaks and contaminate entire regions.

    Even of the dams don't break it is still hundred of square kilometers of land that is contaminated for millennia.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    That is a massively easy problem to get around. I'm really not sure how you think there aren't safe ways to mine lol. Flouting shitty industrial practices in the name of getting people a $100 phone is the problem by shipping them to people viewed as cattle in less developed areas is the problem. One that's not even hard to fix.

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