Anthropic strikes $3.4B deal to generate gas-fired power for data centres

jqpabc123

Meanwhile, China is investing billions is renewable energy for data centers. Wonder which will be more cost competitive in the "AI race"?

cyanydeez

Anthropic is clearly the delusional side of "Effective Altruism". Hate now, clean up the mess later!

vrganj

Wonder why people protest against data centers... Surely, poisoning our air and further heating our planet has nothing to do with it.

8note

so i guess the main safety aspect of anthropic with regards to ai is that theyre trying to speedrun some other disaster instead?

scotty79

Imagine what renewables buildout could AI boom cause only if we had reasonable legal restrictions on new greenhouse gas emissions.

abctx

https://archive.is/gQXTU

dehugger

What truly drives me crazy is that if they ran a slower build-out, at a pace that allowed supporting industries (manufacturing of dram, electrical infrastructure) to grow at a sustainable rate, the impact would manageable. You can make data-centers that don't waste water, that use renewable energy, that aren't titanic eye and audio sores on their communities; it's just more expensive to do so. Silicon Valley's greed will be its undoing.