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highplainsdem

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2. Powering data centers with natural gas is much worse, though, because the race to build more

Reply to OC375 (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 2, 2026, 04:11 PM

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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.

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