A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta could generate dozens of atomic bombs worth of heat every day.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74351191

A proposed data center in northwestern Alberta could generate dozens of atomic bombs worth of heat every day.

  • bad1080@piefed.socialEnglish
    121·
    3 days ago

    queue the people telling us how little that is in comparison to the energy of the sun… you know what else the sun is doing? making plants grow! can your data center do that? no it does the opposite…

    edit: they are already coming out of the woodworks, just with different “arguments”… 🙄

      • definitemaybe@lemmy.ca
        41·
        2 days ago

        I mean… You’re not wrong. Earth will be fine. It’s already had global heating cycles beyond the scale of what we’re looking at.

        The small, teensy, insignificant problem is that the last time it happened was one of the Great Extinction events that wiped out most live on the planet.

        And the heating also happened about 100-1000× more slowly, iirc—over the timescale of millennia, not decades.

        But life will survive. And new species will eventually evolve to fill the sparsely populated planet left behind by the disaster.

        The Great Filter is coming for us.

        • A_norny_mousse@piefed.socialEnglish
          21·
          2 days ago

          You’re not wrong.

          I was sarcastically quoting those galaxy brains. Of course they’re technically correct, that was my whole point.

          I have taken to talking about saving the ecosphere instead.

          I’d still prefer to avoid a human made extinction event.

          • definitemaybe@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 days ago

            Totally agreed — sorry, I thought it was clear that I understood you were poking fun at them. I was leaning into your sarcasm, but it sounds like I missed conveying that tone!