| ▲ | mpliax an hour ago | |
> Datacenters are like a tiny blip on emissions plots Maybe in 2023, but what about now? | ||
| ▲ | pj_mukh 30 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
You think we’ve built that many data centers next to coal fired power plants that the emissions have gotten anywhere close to the emissions of all the iron smelters and the billions of people that commute in gas cars? We could triple the data centers since 2023 and run them all on coal or natural gas and then maybe they’d even show up as a significant slice on these pie charts. Our bubbles have blinded us to the scale of the real problem. | ||