Eyekaytee comments on Anthropic lands deal in $31bn datacentre in western Queensland, David Crisafulli says

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone [S] 1 point 5 days ago (2 children)

the dc gets built here or it gets built in the usa

the decision is for you to decide, who is more likely to get onto full renewables first, america or australia?

you can say america if you want, maybe they elect a tree hugging hippie next and we elect hanson

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 point 4 days ago* (1 child)

They build it where they think it'll being them the most profit. Every denial reduces the profitability and thus reduces the amount they'll invest in data centres in the future. It's obviously a good thing, if you are opposed to increasing use of fossil fuels, to deny a permit to a building that will burn heaps of fossil fuels.

Your comment is the same kind of bullshit nonsense that leads some morons to saying things like "it's ok that we send weapons to aid Israel's genocide of Palestinians. If we didn't, someone else would." Or "we don't have to worry about our coal exports to other countries when accounting for our climate change impact. If we didn't sell it to them, someone else would."

It's obviously wrong, arrived at purely thanks to some incredible motivated reasoning.

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone [S] 1 point 4 days ago

Every denial reduces the profitability and thus reduces the amount they’ll invest in data centres in the future

Your plan, if i understand it correctly, is hoping that if we deny them building a data centre here running off of renewables for ever increasing amounts of time... that they will at some point in the future have less money to invest in data centres and that will slow down emissions at some point in the future? The emissions that are stacking up now you're not bothered with?

“we don’t have to worry about our coal exports to other countries when accounting for our climate change impact. If we didn’t sell it to them, someone else would.”

That's because we're not the ones burning the coal, it's the countries we are shipping it to

In theory we can send a trillion tons of coal to indonesia, if they don't stick it in the microwave there's no co2 emissions

Which furthers what I'm saying, countries need to take responsibility for themselves, we Australians are burning trillions of tokens every year, we should be taking responsibility for our own emissions, not greenwashing ourselves and putting the co2 tab on America as you are doing

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