tanteJun 28, 2025

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.

Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?

Here's the actual impact.

"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.2JRa.e3Ju6r_pL1Im

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.

On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

The New York Times
Show threadProfessor Charles Haas
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The internet was construction to be resilient to failure of any node, with many pathways. How is building a (small number) of mega-data centers contributing to resilience. Do these not represent a small number of single points of failure?
#resilience #AI #datacenters #risk
Jun 29, 2025 at 2:22pmIvory for Mac