Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.
MWT@christineburns Solar power technology is getting cheaper all the time. They should invest heavily in it until they can afford to power their data centres with it. By the time the AI bubble collapses, the rest of us will be able to benefit from the tech improvements. Win win? :p
The Penguin of Evil@mwt @christineburns data centre people hate renewables because variable power pricing makes billing complicated and it harder to sweat their expensive server assets. That's the biggest problem IMHO. Water recovery can be done. District heating can be done although some countries with brain dead zoning rules would struggle
Daniel Blake@etchedpixels @mwt @christineburns while fossil fuels have such excellent price stability and no political risk?