I’ve never seen a data centre with a chimney stack. This must be an American thing.
this post was submitted on 17 Aug 2026
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But it's WORTH IT when ChatGPT will be able to DIAGNOSE your CANCER because you ate WOODCHIPS after using a Recipe ChatGPT gave you when you asked for Advice on SWIMMING!
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and texas was going to add another 1800 datacenters, until they saw thier elections of the gop is jeopardy.
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But the Average joe using plastic straws is the real reason for climate change. /s
If there was money to be made from solving climate change, it would've been solved yesterday.
I think there’s a lot of money to be made in confronting climate change… but it will be made more than two fiscal quarters in the future, so capitalists are not just willing, but actually proud to ignore it.
You'd be correct. Recent estimates are that climate change caused issues will reduce global income by about 15% and cost $40 trillion annually by 2050.
They'd make more money by tackling climate change. It's in the math. But that math has to be done over multiple years not just next quarter as you said.
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Bring back filing cabinets and stationary. This has all gone too far.
Usable quantum computing will annihilate the need for these data centres. They'll be defunct within a decade. The earth will be worse off and the money laundering that they provide will move elsewhere. Fuck this timeline.
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I'm shocked, shocked I tell you, that the people behind the biggest investment and financial scam of the century would, to make more money, fuck up people other than just investors!
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