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jwr01/22/20255 repliesview on HN

Mostly benefiting the fossil fuel industry. How are they going to power this? Gas is the only option that can be implemented within single years. And this is going to need a lot of power.

Who cares about the planet, anyway.


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noisy_boy01/22/2025

There probably will be a clause of mandatory consumption of a given percentage of power generated from coal ensuring continued coal generation of a given minimum providing excellent talking-points for broadcasting to the incumbent's base.

sebazzz01/22/2025

> Who cares about the planet, anyway.

Maybe at some point they are going to AI themselves out of climate change. Well.. except for the part where they don’t believe in man-escalated climate change.

secondcoming01/22/2025

For $500bn they can build a nuclear power plant dedicated to these data centres

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andrepd01/22/2025

Trump just rescinded licenses for offshore wind farms via an EO. We're fucking cooked (and I mean this literally)

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admissionsguy01/22/2025

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