A DRAMATIC increase in US coal consumption was “by far the biggest contributor” to the overall increase in global CO2 emissions last year, a report has revealed.
The rise in coal use was largely driven by the growth of data centres. Last year, US energy secretary Chris Wright said coal would be “essential” to “winning the AI race”,
For anyone that uses AI if you can switch to
https://chat.mistral.ai/
https://lumo.proton.me/
https://greenpt.com/
I definitely recommend it
While Lumo and Greenpt use other company made models Mistral trains it’s own models using renewables and nuclear
There’s also Ecosia and Qwant search engines which heavily use renewables/nuclear