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• @drewharwell.com Drew Harwell on bluesky

  Building the wave of the future with an astronomical surge in planet-choking greenhouse gas [embedded post]

• @marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky

  hyperscalers and large scale hosters have spent the last decade doubling down on renewable energy and outside the US that's what data centres are still using; this is less a data centre problem and more ‘what changed in the US in the last year so that gas suddenly became an optio…

• r/EverythingScience r on reddit

  US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by AI demands, with big costs for the climate

• @mollytaft.com Molly Taft on bluesky

  i was actually shocked to see the numbers on new research from Global Energy Monitor on new gas projects in the US: nearly 100 gigawatts of power—enough to power tens of millions of homes—are currently in development explicitly to power data centers.  At the end of 2023 that numb…

• @antoniajuhasz Antonia Juhasz on bluesky

  Gas projects in the US pipeline explicitly linked to data centers increased by almost 25 times over the past two years, according to new research from Global Energy Monitor.  —  @mollytaft.com  —  www.wired.com/story/data-c...

• @scottagunn Scott Gunn on bluesky

  Among the MANY reasons preachers should not be using AI to write your sermons or teach your classes, you're baking our planet.  AI does not help us love our neighbors.  —  www.wired.com/story/data-c...

• r/Futurology r on reddit

  US leads record global surge in gas-fired power driven by Al demands, with big costs for the climate | …