Comment by doctorwho42
5 hours ago
All at the cost of ... {List of negatives regarding the construction and powering of AI data centers }
5 hours ago
All at the cost of ... {List of negatives regarding the construction and powering of AI data centers }
If you added up the negative effect of every single "ai data center" you'd end up with less than a single coal mine.
It's good to think about second order impacts but this is not useful.
Citation needed,
Just one 20 GW AI data center which is being built with gas powered turbine generator power plant, will be the largest fossil fuel power plant in the world... How exactly is that the same as one coal mine
The social costs are worse.
I dunno, concentrating the environmental impact of 20GW of gas based power generation would be the equivalent of 6-9 Million cars running... All in the space of a corner of a small city
That sounds much worse than I had expected. Is this enough consumption to significantly affect the local price of gasoline?
Edit: Why don't they have lower-emission power sources?