That's going to be tough.

data centers is driven by genAI, which itself is unnecessary and harmful.

It's a shame that AI owners and execs and the venture capitalists helping to maintain the AI bubble can't be forced to live right next to the data centers, so they have to put up with the noise and pollution themselves.

I worry for freezing families with high gas bills, cold water and wet clothes, in addition to mother earth. There has to be affordable alternatives.

from the damage he's done in just the past 14 months.

... but it's not clear the author knows what that is.

"Additional gas-powered cars on the road" is another one of those fuzzy units like "enough to power ___ homes."

That's about a billion dollars of power plant, enough to power a large city.

At this moment California's electric demand is about 27,000 megawatts. It would take about 30 of these electric plants to power the entire state.

A single 900 megawatt electric plant could power a city the size of San Francisco.

That's one of many reasons to reject Imitation Intelligence. Natural gas is a very dirty fuel that contributes greatly to global heating. It's not any better than coal and will end whatever is left of the natural world as humans have known it.

I use the phrase "imitation Intelligence" because language is important. "Artificial Intelligence" implies that these machines are intelligent. They are not. They are merely a poor imitation of a single narrow facet of actual intelligence.

Always like your posts Hunter.

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centers (so the 900 MW of the Goodnight project is just a tiny part (0.9%) of this).

From the article (emphasis added by progree) -

As data center developers face lengthy wait times to connect to electricity grids and rising concerns over consumer electric bills, they’re increasingly turning to building their own energy, or what’s known as behind-the-meter power. For these projects, gas is king; data centers are now driving a US boom in natural gas. Nearly 100 gigawatts ((100,000 MW -progree)) of natural-gas fired power are currently in development throughout the US solely to power data centers, according to research ( https://www.wired.com/story/data-centers-are-driving-a-us-gas-boom/ ) published by the nonprofit Global Energy Monitor in January.

Per the Global Energy Monitor research, there are at least 15 projects in development across the US that are larger than the Goodnight campus. Several of these projects have only just been announced or are still in the development phase, and have not yet filed air permits detailing just how much greenhouse gases they will emit. But the numbers that have been made public are jaw-dropping: . . . ((a couple examples given -progree))