How big tech is addressing the rising energy demands of its data centers

There are hundreds of data centers across the U.S., most of which are run by big tech firms, and their seemingly endless rows of servers are consuming huge amounts of electricity. Ben Tracy takes a look at how one of those companies, Google, is turning to renewable energy sources to power them.

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[RyanDouglas-hd]

Nuclear micro reactors is the solution; it's a no-brainer.

[SciHeartJourney]

Richard Pryor would probably say that his Superman 3 character warned us all! 🤯

[Unaplgetic]

Fracking is not good as no viable option what so ever

[douglasengle]

The US electric power grid has been greatly clean since the mid 1980s when acid rain from sulfur dioxide, particulate soot and unburned hydrocarbons had been addressed from coal fired electric power plants.

Wind and Solar generated wild AC that is not charging storage or similar such as working with hydroelectric power generation is mostly worthless because the dips of their energy output are having to be instantly made up typically by natural gas turbine generators running at high service idle consuming 70% of the fuel of full throttle, but producing little electricity.

[annareismith]

Why do they not use all the heat those servers make to make energy they can use?

[SciHeartJourney]

I have an idea. 🤔 Have you ever seen The Matrix?
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[swedesam]

What's protecting these data centers when people finally revolt against AI's overreach.

[producermogul]

Solar plus battery easy I can solve this with my company in no time

[clifftanch]

It’s interesting to contemplate if climate activists will choose to, eg, perform simple, Google searches rather than using AI!?

[SJR_Media_Group]

Kind of misleading... Chat AI requests are tiny compared to Google Searches... less than 5 percent of total traffic on Internet...

[lokesh]

Renewable Energy is the Best when Stored in the form of Hydrogen instead of Direct Electricity Transmission towards Datacenters.

Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Center Powerplants are reliable for Long-term Annual Basis Supply.

[topotree]

So if they will use earths hotness away then how in the world earth will keep it's balance or have it's magnetism intact or other things like protection from solar winds etc, seem like a bad choice for Earth 🌎.

[coolrip]

And cool the earth's core even more! plz dont!!!