cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/53694832

The boom is set to produce enough greenhouse gases to cancel out 15 years of declines in power-sector emissions, according to a Sierra Club analysis.

  • rynn@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    What makes me really sad about this is they don’t have to be if they are engineered right, but the current government is all nah f that let’s burn it all down.

    Maybe a new government can retroactively penalize carbon emitting data centers and force them to shutter until they get to carbon neutral. We really need to get aggressive on this.