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    3. Ignisami on

      The problem here isn’t the raw energy use of the data centers (which is big, our population is like 17 million), but the fact that politicians weren’t approving preventative maintenance/upgrades to our energy network (because not approving it means energy companies weren’t making those expenses and thus not passing it along to the customers). Especially the last part leading to the actual home.

      So while there is a bit of an energy crisis here, it’s not a question of total energy consumption vs total production, but with throughput. Rutte *et al* not allowing the electricity cable to your home to be upgraded ahead of time are to be blamed for this, not the data centers a kilometer or two away.

    5. Leftblankthistime on

      Microsoft operates a lot of its azure and M365 infrastructure in NL. Not saying it’s their fault

    6. gin_bulag_katorse on

      Aren’t these places supposed to be powered by bio-electricity from unconscious humans plugged into the Matrix?

    8. Thoresus on

      Guys dont forget to buy energy efficient light bulbs for your house, do your part!

    9. greybruce1980 on

      All that money wasted to misinterpret and poorly summarize things.

      Edit: I naturally assumed AI. Not your rum of the mill dara centers

    11. thespice on

      All I hear about is how many gpus nvidia can make, do we think they’ll ever try making them more energy efficient?

    12. goldstarflag on

      It would’ve been worth it if it actually made the world a better place. But the digital age has made the world shittier, lonelier, fragmented, culturally stagnant and depressed. All this waste of energy for what? Endless slop. It’s like we’re regressing.

    14. LWNobeta on

      And this is while they are converting farms back to nature for environmental reasons.

    16. johnqpublic81 on

      I live in Georgia, I fully expect my power bill to go up as soon as the data centers are put online. The three years of our rates being frozen just happens to coincide with the 2-3 years it will take to build the data centers near Plant Vogtle.

    17. Marchello_E on

      That’s (2/18) more 10%.
      Cut them off then. Let them put a solar panel or two on their roof, a windmill in their garden, and let their ‚huge amount‘ of employees paddle along with generators.

    18. complexomaniac on

      IF the information is true….the heat produced by these data centers can be used to heat an entire city if they are designed to do so. Let’s get on that.

    19. Detox208 on

      Moratorium on new Data Centers until they can figure out how to make them sustainable

    20. lilac-forest on

      I genuinely have such a hard time caring when we could be easily helping the planet just by not eating animals.

    21. TV-Tommy on

      Hey, Guess what! The Internet is V E R Y expensive!

      New Data Center construction is on the rise in a big BIG way. Locations need water for cooling, HUGE amounts of electricity, generators & batteries for backup, and people. I don’t think society knows what is coming. I recommend doing a Google Search on your locale. Please, try not to cry, if you know the reasoning for this. Be ready!

      Cut & paste into Google the following search phrase …

      worldwide new data center construction projects

    22. AmericanSahara on

      Maybe build some homes instead of billions of AI spy bots that will look at each person’s tax records, health records, bank account records, telephone activity, internet activity, social media activity, etc.

    24. Puzzleheaded-Car3562 on

      I can see a day where the vast majority of the Earth is covered in data centres and the remaining population is huddled together on a small island – say, Bermuda – living in fear and poverty while the catastrophic overheated climate gradually drowns the island and the refugees. The data centres then feed data to each other in ever increasing amounts until the whole thing catches fire and all is gone. Then new life emerged from the ocean … this is part of the history of the planet, has happened many times before, and is inevitable.

      Or it could just be a repeat of the Tulip Bubble, the world’s first mass speculation! Clever people, the Dutch.

    25. Level_Abrocoma8925 on

      Luckily, Germany next door will help you with nuclear energy, right? RIGHT?

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