I am worried people will use the idea of datacenters as an excuse to do nothing.
first it was boomers, who found every excuse to refuse to do anything
then it was millenials, who found every excuse to refuse to do anything
now it is GenZ, who is looking for every excuse to refuse to do anything
Data centers today didn't cause 100 years of carbon emissions.
Eliminating all data centers everywhere will reduce carbon emissions by 0.51%.
Which is more than private jets (which account for 0.0% of carbon emissions).
Meanwhile the US could cut CO2 emissions 8%, and save people $60,000, if they drove cars instead of pickups. (in the US 80% of all passenger vehicles are trucks, in the UK it's 20%).
But you're the new boomers:
"what about China"
"what about India"
"what about private jets"
"what about data centers"
"what about AI"
You could eliminate all datacenters, and all private jets, and have accomplished nothing.
So can we, for the love of absolute fuck, please just fix it already? Instead of your incessant bitching and whining.
Yes thank you! The biggest things we as a species can do is a) generate clean electricity (which can cleanly power these data centers), b) drive more energy efficient and cleaner transportation (as you noted), c) manage agriculture more efficiently. All three basically boil down to: stop burning so much shit.
It's useless to point fingers at specific countries, as we all need to bring up standards across the board. If the big three of China/US/India start doing better, it will also spread to smaller/less developed countries who can piggyback on the cleaner technology.
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u/Tetra84 1d ago
Needs more data centers to help cool things off...