jwzNov 29, 2024
Because irony is dead, a Dutch tulip farmer is heating their greenhouse with Bitcoin mining: The servers in turn are powered by solar energy from the roof, reducing the normally huge electricity costs for mining, and cutting its...
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Show threadPeter BrownNov 30, 2024
@jwz and if these massive new data centres built renewable generation beside their new data centres they could also be carbon negative.
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@peterbrown I do not think the word "negative" means what you think it means.
Nov 30, 2024 at 7:18pmWeb
Show threadPeter BrownNov 30, 2024

@jwz I was between positive and negative but decided if it was positive it must be producing carbon

But I’m sure you knew what I meant 😜