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[–] 10 points 3 days ago*

The rise in coal use was largely driven by the growth of data centres. Last year, US energy secretary Chris Wright said coal would be “essential” to “winning the AI race”,

For anyone that uses AI if you can switch to

https://chat.mistral.ai/

https://lumo.proton.me/

https://greenpt.com/

I definitely recommend it

While Lumo and Greenpt use other company made models Mistral trains it's own models using renewables and nuclear

There's also Ecosia and Qwant search engines which heavily use renewables/nuclear

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