Comment by stackghost
4 days ago
>I would suggest data centres near the arctic - it's close to most of the Northern hemisphere's users, presents an easy option for cooling (the place is a heat sink), and, with collapsing glaciers, there will be abundant hydro power to be used.
Advocating for exacerbating the melting of the polar ice cap, which will endanger dozens of millions of people, just to have more convenient data centers for manufacturing AI slop, is peak HN.
If they are going to build them, they might as well build them in a place that could use extra power and where cooling would use less energy.
stackghost, if they use less cooling power, how is that exacerbating melting ice caps? And how is making use of a resource supposed to condone the actions that brought it about? Is arctic hydropower morally unclean or something? Your "peak HN" might have a little backfire to it.
Thanks for inspiring a little fun with the "peak HN" meme:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...