A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.
I’m incredibly shocked they would even consider this. Nuclear is hubris sure, but gas? Fuck me.
It’s just capitalism. There’s expected profit to be made, so capital flows in direction of getting that profit. It’s happening the cheapest and fatsest way it could. The only way to stop it is for the rest of us to use our political and labour power to force control or ownership.
Is it the only way though?
While people are excited about using AI to solve problems, gas producers are excited about creating more problems by powering AI with gas. Let’s be clear we don’t want AI to be powered by fossil fuels.
As long as they keep using up all our water, too!
Small price to pay for undressing classmates. Nobody said the AI future was going to be cheap or livable.
Gotta bomb schools tho
