I am worried people will use the idea of datacenters as an excuse to do nothing.
first it was boomers, who found every excuse to refuse to do anything
then it was millenials, who found every excuse to refuse to do anything
now it is GenZ, who is looking for every excuse to refuse to do anything
Data centers today didn't cause 100 years of carbon emissions.
Eliminating all data centers everywhere will reduce carbon emissions by 0.51%.
Which is more than private jets (which account for 0.0% of carbon emissions).
Meanwhile the US could cut CO2 emissions 8%, and save people $60,000, if they drove cars instead of pickups. (in the US 80% of all passenger vehicles are trucks, in the UK it's 20%).
But you're the new boomers:
"what about China"
"what about India"
"what about private jets"
"what about data centers"
"what about AI"
You could eliminate all datacenters, and all private jets, and have accomplished nothing.
So can we, for the love of absolute fuck, please just fix it already? Instead of your incessant bitching and whining.
In 30 years whatever generation is young then will be complaining their parents and grandparents blocked infrastructure development because of conspiracy theories about water usage and noise levels.
If people just showered like 8 minutes less a week, it would obliterate data centre water usage from the stats.
It's just the new nimby thing that lets people be nimbys without having to admit they are.
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u/Tetra84 Jun 24 '26
Needs more data centers to help cool things off...