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wredcollyesterday at 10:37 PM1 replyview on HN

If you added up the negative effect of every single "ai data center" you'd end up with less than a single coal mine.

It's good to think about second order impacts but this is not useful.


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doctorwho42yesterday at 10:43 PM

Citation needed,

Just one 20 GW AI data center which is being built with gas powered turbine generator power plant, will be the largest fossil fuel power plant in the world... How exactly is that the same as one coal mine