A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.

The extra demand from GenAI will reportedly lead to a rise in emissions from 200 million tons this year to 600 million tons by 2030, thanks largely to the construction of more data centers to keep up with the demand for cloud services.

  • sunzu2
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    62 months ago

    then why are data centers using these fossil fuel power plants?

    why are they getting lower rates to use them than an individual taxpayer?

      • sunzu2
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        12 months ago

        Cities don’t build power plants generally esp not large scale fossil fuel type

          • sunzu2
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            12 months ago

            That’s right and that’s why they should be charged premium for their vanity exercises instead of being subsidized by the taxpayers

    • @cryptiod137@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      What else would they use? Thats what’s available

      Because they can build more capacity based on a long term contract with the utilities.

      • sunzu2
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        12 months ago

        That’s just how things are… Fuck your peasants