Tech Giants’ Self-Made AI Energy Crisis

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EDIT: It appears this topic is starting to gain traction.
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As big tech continued their march towards “green” energy it appears they have kicked the table legs out from under them. This will get interesting in the next 5-10 years.

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For the last decade, tech giants such as Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and Google have, through dedicated anti-fossil-fuel propaganda and political efforts, promoted the shutdown of reliable fossil fuel power plants in favor of unreliable solar and wind.

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Tech giants have propagandized against reliable fossil fuel power plants by falsely claiming to be "100% renewable" and implying everyone could do it. In fact, they have just paid utilities to credit them for others' solar and wind use and blame others for their coal and gas use.

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The RE100 coalition, including Google, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, advocates for policies to “accelerate change towards zero carbon grids at scale by 2040.”

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To function at its potential, AI requires massive amounts of power. E.g., state-of-the-art data centers can require as much electricity as a large nuclear reactor.

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Official 10-year projections for the US have summer and winter peak demand rising by over 79 gigawatt and over 90 gigawatt. 90 gigawatt is equivalent to adding the entire power generating capacity of California

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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that energy will be the #1 bottleneck to AI progress.

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