United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon, water and land used to power their systems.
Almost. They don’t actually show that the renewables they’re using would not have been built anyways and that they’re not displacing decarbonization as a result. Or that the wind and solar are supplied at the same time and place as the data center.
Doing this stuff well takes keeping track of a lot of moving parts.
They don’t actually show that the renewables they’re using would not have been built anyways and that they’re not displacing decarbonization as a result.
What :D
This is exactly where you want to build data centres??
Almost. They don’t actually show that the renewables they’re using would not have been built anyways and that they’re not displacing decarbonization as a result. Or that the wind and solar are supplied at the same time and place as the data center.
Doing this stuff well takes keeping track of a lot of moving parts.
What :D
This is exactly where you want to build data centres??
Is it like that year-round, or seasonally? Does the new load replace exports that displace fossil fuels in adjacent region?