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ai_brain_rottoday at 11:16 AM3 repliesview on HN

Well you know, data centers are optional. The sun is not.

What a disingenuous comparison, do you hear yourself?


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mapcarstoday at 11:37 AM

Comments on the internet are also optional, yet you do it

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patching-troweltoday at 12:55 PM

Not sure it was a disingenuous comparison. If they’re saying the heat from a DC is drop in the bucket provided by the sun (in a given area), then that heat would indeed be negligible. On the other hand, if that heat comes in water form, and upsets the ecosystem (in a given area), then that would be NOT negligible. Not really about optionality in either case.

balheriantoday at 11:43 AM

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