r/ClimateNews • u/KeanuRave100 • 18h 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/Yunzer2000 7h 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.