Maybe if we massively overbuild renewables, and then the AI bubble pops, electricity demand will suddenly drop, leaving us with an almost completely renewable-powered grid, since there’s no longer enough demand to spin up the fossil fuel plants?
Just remember, every time you use Google AI, you’re helping encourage these data centers to continue operating. I switched over to Ecosia as a search engine and browser, and have disabled the AI. Every little bit counts.
Ok but…
Jevon’s paradox
^^^ This exactly. “We’re going to reduce our carbon footprint by deploying Gigawatts more gas and coal, and aren’t these solar panels Shiny!”
Time to ban data centers.
Datacenters are how the internet works
Time to stop calling hyperscale GPU farms “data centres” then. There’s a difference between housing a few exabytes of spinning disks with enough compute to run S3 APIs and PHP servers and enough GPU power to continuously statistically correlate all the world’s data to better generate slop from.
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Peak demand hours set to change to 9-5 being peak
