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Canadian Professor Warns Massive New Data Center Would Release ‘23 Hiroshima-Sized Atomic Bombs Worth of Energy’ Every Day
The nation says the exemption skips a full environmental review for a $70 billion project that could emit 30 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.
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Physicist warns proposed data centre would generate ‘large, if not extreme’ heat waste
A physicist hired by a First Nation in Alberta to provide a preliminary, third-party analysis of the mammoth data centre proposed by celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary says it would release the equivalent of several atomic bombs of heat waste into the boreal forest of northwestern Alberta every day.
In Canada, a giant data center project for artificial intelligence could generate as much heat as 23 times the A bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. Behind this spectacular comparison, it is mainly the energy and climate cost of AI that questions.
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