• shameless@lemmy.world
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    2 个月前

    Remember when people were rightly upset about the power usage of bitcoin, I’d love to know collectively how much tech companies are using in comparison to produce this slop.

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      I don’t have a source for numbers, but I’ve read a handful headlines about tech companies building nuclear reactors for their datacenters.

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        Not to say that they’re somehow clean, more so that the energy demand is insane enough to warrant considerations like this

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        If they are willing to spend billions and years to build one, and even longer to bring it up to regulation, not in this administration though