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@ketan@climatejustice.social 8 hr. ago

I wonder if I maybe don't say this enough: the gas-fired data centre boom is *planned* but not *inevitable*.

In fact, the plans are fragile, and this petrotech dream only works if everything lands with perfect timing and poise.

https://stand.earth/insights/west-virginia-microsoft-monarch-data-center/

https://stand.earth/insights/west-virginia-microsoft-monarch-data-center/

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חנן כהן • Hanan Cohen

@hananc@tooot.im 1 hr. ago

@ketan please read "Where're All The AI Chips?" where Ed Zitron writes that many AI chips are not yet powered because data centers are hard to build.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/wherere-all-the-ai-chips/

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Where're All The AI Chips?

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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai 50 min. ago

The mythology of the captains of industry, all carefully calculating production to a nicety.

Except these fools.

A hoard of GPU chips might be cute if there was a dragon to sleep on it.

Or maybe it should be a withered old ghoul stroking them saying “my precious”

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social 8 hr. ago

@ketan “petrotech” is a good shorthand. Will be using that, thanks

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