Did the Data Center get canceled? If not, then no it is not ruined and instead what's going to happen? Is someone's going to scrape up a whole bunch of that concrete releasing a whole bunch of carbon dioxide and then someone's going to pour down some more concrete which will increase the CO2 in the atmosphere.

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skeaker 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This would still pollute less than the usage of the center. You're underestimating how much energy they use once active.

	▲	nick__m 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		You are underestimating how much co2 is released during ciment production and overestimating what is released by powering datancenters. In 2024, datancenter have consumed 1% of the total worldwide electricity production and are responsible for 0.5% of the co2 emissions.¹ 1- https://www.carbonbrief.org/ai-five-charts-that-put-data-cen...

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inigyou 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So basically you think burning down an oil company HQ increases climate change?

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card_zero an hour ago | parent [-]

That sounds likely to be true. They'll move operations to a temporary building while they build a new one. To some extent their ability to make plans will be disrupted, but the effect those plans would have had on the climate is unknown: the result is just that the oil company behaves in a more stupid and poorly-planned way, while doing some extra construction.

	▲	inigyou 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		What if every time the oil company got a new HQ, it burned down? Would that increase or decrease climate change?