alt Hacker NewsExactly this. Powering all AI data centers with renewable energy is actually trivially easy.
You could even legislate it and make big tech companies responsible for providing the power themselves. One stroke of the pen resolves the issue.
If OpenAI can afford to “spend $1 trillion” on AI they can afford to build some wind/solar/battery power plants.
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nradov • today at 1:12 PM
In what sense is it trivially easy? The battery supply chain is still backlogged and will be for years to come.
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exabrial • today at 1:22 PM
That’s power that could have been used to shut off coal plants. Instead now you’ve extended their lives.
badgersnake • today at 1:10 PM
Not if your government refuses to let you build any renewable capacity.
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"At BigGridCo we're proud to switch AI to 100% renewable power. On paper we just send all the dirty power to (scoffs) pesky houses and industry, leaving the clean power for AI."