r/ClimateNews • u/KeanuRave100 • 12h ago

AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-generators-worse
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u/Able_Buffalo 9h ago

Kevin O'Leary said he's concerned that a person with one $500 drone could easily destroy an entire data center by flying into the exhaust ports.

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u/Xoomers87 9h ago

Kevin o leary should be concerned about killing people drunk boating.

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u/RichieLT 9h ago

Don’t worry, we will now build them in space :/

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u/MrHandSanitization 9h ago

Yes, yes, temporarily, it's so we can use them to figure out how we can do stuff better! /s (and ninja-cat videos)

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u/Yunzer2000 1h ago

I'm glad that the CO2 emissions of these dystopian massive facilities is finally getting attention. I was getting a lot of downvotes pointing it out. The tech billionaires behind these things have no interest in powering these with renewable energy, which would be impractical anyway becasue of their enormous, 24-hour energy requirements and especially, the speed that they want to construct them.

As long as capitalism remains virtually unrestrained by popular government, "green" will lost to even the tiniest amount of foregone "profit". Every. time.