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    Big Tech setzte auf saubere Energie und schaffte eine Wende im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel. Dann kamen KI-Rechenzentren

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    2. Trajan- on

      Noice noice. More like big tech learned what 99.995% power reliability was when it’s needed to run AI datacenters with a max amount of 26 minutes of downtime “per year” and found solar panels and wind turbines lacking when it comes to the almighty “baseload.”

      If the greenies hadn’t railed so hard against nuclear for 30 years, fossil fuel production would’ve eased long ago. But nuclear didn’t fit that social agenda 🤷🏻‍♂️

    3. EasterEggArt on

      To be fair, the biggest miracle was when humanity collective had a soul and realized that depleting the ozone layer due to our excess use of a particular chemical was bad and we eliminated it.

      Then somehow we decided that that was all the collective soul searching we needed and decided to destroy us with over heating instead via:
      – web3
      – blockchain
      – NFT
      – crypto
      – data centers

      We literally proved we can solve world problems, but that was not profitable enough. So we decided to keep creating fake products that literally are not even real and produce almost nothing tangible or profitable (except those manufacturing the equipment, just like during any gold rush).

    4. Aaco0638 on

      Tbf the big 3 (aws, azure and google cloud) 100% are building and renovating their data centers to be renewable. It’s all the other players like oracle and ai labs like xAI who don’t give a fuck.

      Hell in this article itself you see an aws center being built next to a nuclear powerplant for energy. The big three know how bad using oil for these things look and how it exposes you to international nonsense like the iran war.

    5. -ghostinthemachine- on

      Their commitments were only as deep as they were convenient. Once the AI arms race began it was no longer as profitable to be green. Don’t trust corporations to do the right thing, regulate.

    6. stabintavern on

      Big tech was doing a damn good job laundering climate blame and virtue signaling before they pivoted to AI will make your complaints irrelevant.

      The very idea that a company is “green” whose products involve large complex global manufacturing supply chains of metal, plastic, and silicon and that consumes boatloads of electricity should take very little consideration to understand it is very very very not green.

      When they start growing microchips out of mushrooms and plant matter, I’ll start listening to their claims about being good for the environment.

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