You’re being lied to about electricity and AI data centers: the truth is dirtier and inefficient

Описание: We’ve all heard how AI is going to take over everyone’s job and we need to build a gazzilion new data centers to house our new digital overlords or we’ll fall behind. And these data centers will require an enormous amount of energy, which is being provided by low efficiency and dirty turbines, worsening climate change and air pollution.

So why are we doing this?

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