A single data center can consume over well over 650 MW which is enough electricity for nearly 500,000 homes, which is more homes than the entire population of Miami Florida. Amazon has a 1,037 MW AI data center.
The main consumers of electricity are industrial, not homes. Nothing we take for granted in a home would exist without those industrial supply chains, including data centers. The homes are downstream of continued investment in and expansion of the processes that actually consume most of the electricity.
With oil prices rising, climate tech is still quietly advancing.
This was the only way change was ever going to happen: when economics forced it.
Really because Spain and Norway did it through government interventions to guide markets.
We don't have to be slaves to unregulated markets or the oligarchs they naturally breed.
I guess that could also be phrased as: out of 180+ countries only Spain and Norway managed it in limited ways.
Untrue, or at least distorted with all the obvious and hidden fossile subsidies.
what if we used AI on the climate
Just gotta build out those data centers first. For the climate, of course.
Impact compared to other life necessary structures of big cities is small. (Water, power etc...) But yeah, it still consumes.
A single data center can consume over well over 650 MW which is enough electricity for nearly 500,000 homes, which is more homes than the entire population of Miami Florida. Amazon has a 1,037 MW AI data center.
The main consumers of electricity are industrial, not homes. Nothing we take for granted in a home would exist without those industrial supply chains, including data centers. The homes are downstream of continued investment in and expansion of the processes that actually consume most of the electricity.
I'm sure you're abstaining from using AI, for the climate of course.
I'm not here to lose, but my definition of winning might be different.
Imagine if we move to Mars only to find out we used to live there...