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therealjcdenton Feb 10, 2024

Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy?

Because AI and Crypto use to much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? - Lemmy.zip

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong

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Kairos Feb 10, 2024

That would actually not do anything.

So there’s this stupid thing called carbon capture right? It’s where instead of putting money into useful things there’s these companies that use a lot of resources on machines that take CO2 out of the atmosphere. The companies claim that they use “green” energy, but it doesn’t. As earmarked as that may be these machines still just use grid energy, which still uses fossil fuels. All it does is take some capacity to replace fossil fuels from green energy.

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abhibeckert

Those companies paid for a sizeable portion of the solar installation on my home. I’d say that’s useful, since it has cut our power consumption from fossil fuels by more than half.