> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant.
-
> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid
> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
@dcoderlt "And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human." — William Gibson
-
@dcoderlt theoretical question: would using a drone with semtex on it be considered self-defense? Or an infraction of T&C?
-
> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid
> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
@dcoderlt This is completely nuts. That's more than the entire power system of Texas!
-
> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid
> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
@dcoderlt customers are just another natural resource to extract until dead.
-
@dcoderlt this is horrific, how is this allowed? Texas is in the firing line of the unfolding climate catastrophy
@SueHagley @dcoderlt Texas and Florida are by far the two worst places in yhe world.
Worse than North Korea, Iran, Russia, and Saudi Arabia combined.
-
To put 7.65 GW in context, Lithuania had a nuclear power plant generating 2.6 GW (and we shut it down twenty years ago).
@dcoderlt Off topic but that nuclear plant looks so awesome!
-
> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid
> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
@dcoderlt if you didnt already know, this IS war!
-
> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid
> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
boost with CN: "AI", fossil fuels
-
> [Amazon] has bought land and acquired permits in Pecos County, Texas, for an AI data center powered by a 7.65 gigawatt gas power plant. The plant will be completely separate from Texas’s power grid
> The site, known as GW Ranch, got a state permit allowing the proposed power plant to emit 33 million tons of carbon dioxide, which would make it the biggest pollution site in the U.S., emitting more than the country’s biggest coal power plant
https://newrepublic.com/post/214111/amazon-data-center-biggest-pollution-source-entire-country
@dcoderlt, sounds like a SPOF to me. What could possibly go wrong, etc.
-
To put 7.65 GW in context, Lithuania had a nuclear power plant generating 2.6 GW (and we shut it down twenty years ago).
@dcoderlt To put 33 million tonnes of CO2 into perspective, my first online source says the average person emits 6 tonnes per year - so that's one powerplant powering one data center emitting the same amount of CO2 as everything that about 5 million people do?
-
P pelle@veganism.social shared this topic
