| ▲ | kleiba2 17 hours ago |
| > the potential to create more greenhouse gases than the country of Morocco emitted in 2024. Does that comparison mean anything to anybody? |
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| ▲ | venzaspa 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| For some context, it's a country with 40 million people. |
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| ▲ | atonse 16 hours ago | parent [-] | | But it’s hardly industrialized right? So is that a fair comparison? | | |
| ▲ | anticorporate 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It actually sits right about in the middle of all countries for percentage of GDP from industrial sectors. It's pretty heavily fossil-fuel powered right now, but like most of the rest of the world Morocco is planning to capture most of its growth in energy demand with renewables. Because, getting back to the original discussion, it'd be idiotic to choose fossil fuels over renewables in 2026. | | |
| ▲ | atonse 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | 100% agree with you. Especially with the amount of sun they get, would be a great candidate for Solar. Renewables also seem to be the best pathway for many nations to attain some level of energy independence (which is NOT the same as oil independence though). |
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| ▲ | cyanydeez 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Are you, like, just not very into reading things or remembering things or is it just one of those things where you're stuck in the 1980s and haven't updated your books since then. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Morocco | | |
| ▲ | atonse 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, clearly I haven't done any meaningful reading regarding Morocco. I will read up more to fix the gaps in my knowledge. :-) |
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| ▲ | clumsysmurf 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Another data point "New AI data center in Utah will generate and consume more than twice the amount of power the entire state uses" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/kevin-o-learys-9-... I wouldn't be surprised if they use this as an excuse to open up public lands for extraction. |
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| ▲ | iwontberude 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Yeah that’s quite the yardstick they’ve chosen |
