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[–] daannii@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Data centers are fast tracking climate change

[–] Chaf@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Don't blame everything on the data centers. Everything else is doing its part in contributing to climate change.

Apart from that data centers, at the scale at which we seem them pop up now, are way too young to have a considerable effect on the current heat wave. Which doesn't mean that they won't in the future. Climate change is, after all, a decades long project

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Absolutely. It's not something new nor caused by something new.

But trump has cut a lot of green laws for data centers. And power plants.

And the sheer amount of additional heat and power consumption these data centers that are running, are using is insane. Akin to adding another few states worth of power and pollution in a span of a few years.

Of course that much additional heat and green house gasses makes a difference. I mean, my understanding is we are probably already past the point of fixing it.

The best we can do is completely stop green house gasses now and hope the extreme consequences only last a few hundred years.

But trump and these data centers are currently undoing all of the progress that has been made (here in the U.S anyway).

Not that much progress was made. But there were corporate interest efforts.

I mean let's be real. The epa regulations were still absurd before Trump cut them, and they never fine anyone even though it sure seems like literally every company has been lying about meeting those restrictions.

[–] Chaf@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Sure, I basically agree with everything you said. The thing is that even without data centers we'd be in this mess. I'm not trying to defend them, they definitely undo the little progress that was made. However, Trump would have undone the regulations with or without the data centers.

It's just that it's not only data centers that are fast tracking climate change. I mean... gestures broadly at everything basically everything is fast tracking climate change.

I guess you definitely are right in the sense that it's one of the sources that's among the easiest to get rid of.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its a millennia long project.

This is another reason why geoengineering is such a bad idea. Even if you stumble onto something that works without killing everyone, you have to consistently do it for many centuries.

[–] SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Well, it's enough to work on the project for decades, the effects will be felt for millenia though.