It used to be turn off your lights and turn down (or up) your thermostats to keep Al Gore's private jet fueled.
Here's a couple of snippets from the article:
Back in 2017, we did the math to figure out how much oil it takes to mine a single Bitcoin. The answer then was about 20 barrels of oil equivalent per coin. Today it's closer to 500. The Bitcoin network now draws somewhere between 138 and 175 terawatt-hours a year, depending on whose model you trust…
Data centers pulled about 415 terawatt-hours off the world's grids in 2024, according to the IEA. Run that through the same conversion, and you get roughly 670,000 barrels of oil equivalent a day, every day, just to keep the servers humming.
AI companies are now scrambling for the same thing oil companies have fought wars over: secure access to energy. JLL estimates global data-center capacity will nearly double by 2030, requiring almost 100 gigawatts of new supply and as much as $3 trillion in combined infrastructure and GPU spending. The International Energy Agency (IEA) projects global data-center electricity demand could surge toward 945 terawatt-hours by the end of the decade.
Wind turbines enters the chat....
This is a good one to watch for the normies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbZwxEnAFc
Compentence and fragility meet the modified prairie...😎
kek
And the shovel at the end is the perfect tool for the job
FUCK wind turbines.
Ugly, kill animals, barely make any energy, and ONL for short periods when its windy, are forever trash, eyesores, barely produce much energy compared to the investments.
Nuclear and hopefully soon fusion, are the only true green renewables which put out ACTUAL power. (I guess hydro ain't bad)
People that believe in green energy should be forced to live on it
so. the real point of data centers is to keep the price of energy high.
there's no way they need to store all that random data in thousands of different centers around the world. And there's no reason to store millions of flock camera's footage for eternity (or even a day). It's garbage data about average people living their average lives.
Seems that way.
It's something the elitists want so they get an exemption...
Like their private jets, yachts, islands, etc.
Purely coincidentally, the IPCC has now concluded that it most scary predictions are implausible.
And, Bill Gates is making a pivot. He says that the projected temperature increases are not the best way to view the problem and that tech is already making improvements in that regard.
In my role as cynic, my guess that the Globalists really want AI data centres and do not want them to be delayed by any supposed global warming issues, I suspect that the above changes in thinking may be connected.