US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges | New technologies are straining country’s power supplies and cutting plans to reduce generation of the fuel by nearly half

silence7@slrpnk.net · 5 months ago

US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges | New technologies are straining country’s power supplies and cutting plans to reduce generation of the fuel by nearly half

Ech@lemm.ee · edit-2 3 months ago

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Blaster M@lemmy.world · 5 months ago

Back when bitcoin mining was all the rage, we had server farms setting up their own power… perhaps it would be in the best interest for AI datacenters to run their own power as well, all renewable. A good investment in cutting that power bill.

futatorius@lemm.ee · 5 months ago

There’s no need to require that, as long as server farms (and other big energy users) pay the full cost (including environmental externalities) of their energy use.