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Interesting how climate change isn't going to kill us now that AI data centers need power
Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:41 am
Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:41 am
Just like that, climate change isn't going to end us, so now it's OK to build those darn climate-polluting power plants again! Yay!
The only question is, how will they deprogram the NPCs they have been brainwashing since Al Gore dropped his documentary and used the profit from it to build a house with 12 air conditioners and a carbon footprint of a whole neighborhood?
The only question is, how will they deprogram the NPCs they have been brainwashing since Al Gore dropped his documentary and used the profit from it to build a house with 12 air conditioners and a carbon footprint of a whole neighborhood?
This post was edited on 10/30/25 at 7:43 am
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:44 am to stout
Greta and AOC may just make a death pact
Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:50 am to stout
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Interesting how climate change isn't going to kill us now that AI data centers need power
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:52 am to stout
I’m still trying to cash in my carbon credits
Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:52 am to stout
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question is, how will they deprogram the NPCs they have been brainwashing
They seem to have mostly shut up already.
I saw an article that they are using recycled airliner turbine generators because they can't get diesel generators fast enough
Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:53 am to NIH
You better hurry. When Bill Gates is signaling climate change is over, you know it will be a whole party shift and the grift is dead.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:56 am to stout
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you know it will be a whole party shift and the grift is dead.
Grifts don't die... they become AI data centers.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 7:58 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I saw an article that they are using recycled airliner turbine generators because they can't get diesel generators fast enough
Yea I saw that
Elon is going to beat them all because he has a plan for the most efficient data center there is.
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Elon Musk came up with a pretty incredible idea during the Q3 Earnings Call, that no one is really talking about.
His words: “Actually, one of the things I thought, if we've got all these cars that maybe are bored, while they're sort of, if they are bored, we could actually have a giant distributed inference fleet and say, if they're not actively driving, let's just have a giant distributed inference fleet.
At some point, if you've got tens of millions of cars in the fleet, or maybe at some point 100 million cars in the fleet, and let's say they had at that point, I don't know, a kilowatt of inference capability, of high-performance inference capability, that's 100 gigawatts of inference distributed with power and cooling taken, with cooling and power conversion taken care of. That seems like a pretty significant asset.”
So basically, each car has ~1 kilowatt of high-performance AI inference capability, Tesla wouldn’t need to build giant data centers — the fleet is the data center.
Tesla could turn their entire fleet into a giant distributed inference network, spread across the world, powered by the batteries and AI in the car already.
He is going to use people's parked Tesla's as a data center
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:07 am to stout
Here's a fun caveat to that: sulfur hexaflouride.
Sulfur hexaflouride is a man-made gas used primarily in electrical switchgear (high-voltage circuit breakers, gas-insulated substations - suppresses electrical arcs), magnesium casting (to prevent the oxidization of molten magnesium) and semiconductor manufacturing (plasma etching and chamber cleaning). The vast majority of leakage into the atmosphere comes from electrical gear (and most of that is from the decomposition of disposed equipment).
Per molecule, it's by far the most potent at trapping heat (trapping ~30k times as much heat per molecule more than CO2), has an atmospheric lifetime of ~3,200 years and a half-life of ~1,000 years.
So as we push towards the "green" of more electricity, we're also exponentially creating more of a gas which is degrees worse for potential atmospheric warming than the evil CO2 (which plants need, but that's a different anti-AGW rant).
Sulfur hexaflouride is a man-made gas used primarily in electrical switchgear (high-voltage circuit breakers, gas-insulated substations - suppresses electrical arcs), magnesium casting (to prevent the oxidization of molten magnesium) and semiconductor manufacturing (plasma etching and chamber cleaning). The vast majority of leakage into the atmosphere comes from electrical gear (and most of that is from the decomposition of disposed equipment).
Per molecule, it's by far the most potent at trapping heat (trapping ~30k times as much heat per molecule more than CO2), has an atmospheric lifetime of ~3,200 years and a half-life of ~1,000 years.
So as we push towards the "green" of more electricity, we're also exponentially creating more of a gas which is degrees worse for potential atmospheric warming than the evil CO2 (which plants need, but that's a different anti-AGW rant).
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:12 am to stout
Maybe enough people have given Al Gore money to reduce the amount carbon in the air ?
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:13 am to captron
Never enough money!
You need to send more money instead of just planting more trees to take out carbon.
You need to send more money instead of just planting more trees to take out carbon.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:14 am to stout
Feeling very Matrixy all of a sudden. Hmm.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:14 am to stout
Gates 180 on Climate change is something else. Crowder nailed it yesterday
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:16 am to stout
At the rate demand is growing, AI will need more power than people in very short order.
(Aren't there films about how dangerous this is?)
(Aren't there films about how dangerous this is?)
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:16 am to stout
This is so embarrassing for so many ppl especially politicians like AOC
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:16 am to stout
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He is going to use people's parked Tesla's as a data center
I'm not nerded out like Elon, but doesn't this come with some concern? He's using someone's electricity for a purpose other than what they've charged their car for? I assume there would be some sort of reimbursement system required for this?
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:28 am to stout
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:47 am to stout
Ive read that it takes a shite ton of local and state infrastructure to build these. But instead of paying for it themselves, In many districts, they decided to get the energy customers to under the guise of "upgrades" to the grid. This is an issue everyone should be aware of and check to see if these companies are paying their fair share or passing the buck along to local residences.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:50 am to DownshiftAndFloorIt
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I saw an article that they are using recycled airliner turbine generators because they can't get diesel generators fast enough
I'm in the power turbine industry and can unequivocally tell you, you are right.
Lead time for these Siemens/GE turbines is 2-3 years. Yes, years.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:05 am to stout
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Interesting how climate change isn't going to kill us now that AI data centers need power
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