During the greatest environmental crisis humanity has ever faced, toxic mining waste causing, water guzzling, electricity sucking, e-waste producing data center growth is totally insane.
“Demand continues to be at all-time highs, and data center growth is rapidly expanding from core markets in search of power.”
ChatGPT had 100 million active users weekly in November 2023 and uses as much power as 33,000 households daily.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ai-demand-and-limited-capacity-drive-us-data-center-prices-up-19/
Gerry McGovern /
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