@simon Counterpoint: the environmental impact of individuals' personal use of genAI ("here's my cute action figure!" etc) may be negligible, but in aggregate it arguably has a massive role to play in legitimising the current wave of data centre buildouts by hyperscalers, VCs etc. And for now [*] that's only possible through undermining or abandoning prior Net Zero commitments.

[*] Future visions of yeeting data centres into space notwithstanding: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/eric-schmidt-apparently-bought-relativity-space-to-put-data-centers-in-orbit/

@Smoljaguar Oops, yeah, I forgot that. Though you do not want to go outside of of earths magnetic field.

All in all, I think this is just hype. It doesn't make sense at all, even if you require 3x as much solar arrays on earths surface, it'd still be way cheaper to build and maintain.

... it would however pour some of that investor money into the space industry, which I wouldn't object to.