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Data centers emitting more CO2 than thought: study
(japantoday.com)
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this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2026
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Obviously this is bad, but there is definitely some irony in the fact that if the government and all the evil lobbyists that are pushing these data centers would have significantly less issues if they'd actually invested in clean energy earlier like we were all already asking them to years ago.
But instead all that BS about "clean coal" is coming back to bite them in the foot now that they actually want to use that "clean" energy