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I’ve never seen a data centre with a chimney stack. This must be an American thing.
It's the "temporary" power plants that are stood up to feed the massive power demands. These are usually gas turbines that are not environmentally friendly at all.
One example would be the ai data centers Musk has that he illegally had gas generators installed at. The fine compared to not running them at all is small in comparison to keep them on. This is why it needs to be a percentage or increasing stack of cost not just a small fine every time.
thats why he set them up in rural tennesee, actually most of the datacenters are in red states for those purpose.
Well that’s one way to speed run environmental catastrophe.
its the polluting gas turbine power plants that will power these AI DC.