> [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.

[dcoderlt@ohai.social]

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).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignalina_Nuclear_Power_Plant

[knapjack@social.vivaldi.net]

@dcoderlt We need to start measuring them in flux capacitors.

[amalia22@mastodon.social]

@dcoderlt While setting up a fund to prevent the extinction of certain species. Bunch of hypocrites. Slap and caress.

[suehagley@mastoart.social]

@dcoderlt this is horrific, how is this allowed? Texas is in the firing line of the unfolding climate catastrophy

[cheappontoon@beige.party]

@dcoderlt rich psychopaths

[ohmrun@indieweb.social]

@dcoderlt

[ar1@mastodon.social]

@dcoderlt theoretical question: would using a drone with semtex on it be considered self-defense? Or an infraction of T&C?

[robabram@mas.to]

@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

[dss@infosec.exchange]

@ar1 @dcoderlt Have you got Prime?

[dss@infosec.exchange]

@dcoderlt This is completely nuts. That's more than the entire power system of Texas!

[deedo@mastodon.nl]

@dcoderlt customers are just another natural resource to extract until dead.

[frequencyfault@mastodon.social]

@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.

[krnlg@mastodon.social]

@dcoderlt Off topic but that nuclear plant looks so awesome!

[myphatself@mstdn.social]

@dcoderlt if you didnt already know, this IS war!

[j12i@weirder.earth]

boost with CN: "AI", fossil fuels

[lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza]

@dcoderlt, sounds like a SPOF to me. What could possibly go wrong, etc.

[niklasnisbeth@mastodon.xyz]

@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?