Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.
God I hope the new Governor blocks this shit in January
Anthropic Just Committed a Shocking Crime Against the Environment
Submitted 17 hours ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-environment-gas-deal
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moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 4 hours ago
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
shocking
No, it’s entirely predictable.
jsnfwlr@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
I think “shocking” is an electricity pun.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It’s such a stupid choice. Saving money in the shortest term - all the way between the CEOs office making the decision, to the PR person… And then we’re all cooked.
“Oh but we don’t want to be a large bank lf solar panels, wind and batteries… That would be too expensive”.
The governments who allowed these companies to make the choice should be raked over the coals.
lath@piefed.social 16 hours ago
A texan city is about to run out of water completely. Dunno which one, but i remember seeing someone pointing out they’ve been in emergency mode since 2022-2023 and that hasn’t been solved at all since.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
bretton.dev@coves.social 17 hours ago
They've already purchased an unbelievable amount of compute capacity from Grok/SpaceX who are notorious for running effectively the most environmentally unfriendly data centers on the planet. This really shouldn't surprise anyone.
I would love to see a law pushed federally for all new and in progress data centers to be mandated to use renewable resources.
Imo it won't even slow anything down, it'll largely just ramp up the transition to renwables.
Seimhe@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Grok/xAI is also involved with CSAM production.
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What’s wild about this is it’s not news. It’s been reported for over a year and nothing has been done to stop it.