The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.
  • weps@lemmy.world
    8·
    21 hours ago

    I’ve been working in data centers since 2008.

    What happened? What changed? They used to be incredible.

    I haven’t been in a data center in a couple of years.

    • trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf
      1·
      10 hours ago

      What changed is that they’re now GPU and RAID farms for enslaving humanity. Remember what the NSA did? It’s x100 worse.

    • Platypus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      26·
      21 hours ago

      Companies are exploiting regulatory loopholes as they construct new facilities powered by pollutant-spewing onsite gas plants.

      The grid can’t handle the buildout, so new data centers are operating unregulated gray-market power plants.

      • Majoran@feddit.org
        2·
        5 hours ago

        Does that effectively also mean that the real energy consumption might not be measured accurately?

    • Bakkoda@lemmy.world
      7·
      20 hours ago

      Do it and pay the fines later. If that nets a profit than the system needs to be changed.