Data Centers are Being Powered By Giant Gas Plants, Possibly Increasing Carbon Pollution for Decades
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Big Techs are betraying their climate commitments by relying on polluting gas power plants to power their IA data centres, which will make carbon emissions worse for decades.The initial climate commitments have been swept away by the unbridled race at AI. Big Techs are massively funding the construction of natural gas power plants to respond to the rise of AI and cloud. This rush towards fast energy for data centers is blowing up their emissions…
Data Centers are Being Powered By Giant Gas Plants, Possibly Increasing Carbon Pollution for Decades
Rather than racing toward their net-zero targets, Amazon and other AI/cloud computing companies "are driving emissions sharply higher," reports the Washington Post: To support their data centers, tech firms are driving construction of a new generation of supersized, gas-fired power plants that coul...
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