A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

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  • Baggie@lemmy.zip
    18·
    1 month ago

    I’m incredibly shocked they would even consider this. Nuclear is hubris sure, but gas? Fuck me.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      9·
      30 days ago

      It’s just capitalism. There’s expected profit to be made, so capital flows in direction of getting that profit. It’s happening the cheapest and fatsest way it could. The only way to stop it is for the rest of us to use our political and labour power to force control or ownership.