On average, each of the current 5,400 Data Centers in the US consumes 50MW of electricity, produced primarily by fossil fuel burning electric plants, and generates 4.1 X 10 to the 7th BTUs per day, so a total from all 5,400 of 2.2 X 10 to the 11th. And the number of these suicidal Data Centers is predicted to double over the next 4 yrs. As Jeff Goodell describes in his must read "The Heat Will Kill Us First", we are already producing/trapping (CO2) the heat energy equivalent of 8-11 Hiroshima nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND, where each one releases the heat energy equivalent of 15 Kt of TNT, or 6.3 X 10 to the 13th J. So far we have been spared from bursting into flames by 1.2 trillion tons of melting global ice (each pound absorbs 144 BTUs) and 321 million cubic miles of rapidly heating oceans. NOAA's "surface analysis" weather map online today is showing Atlantic Ocean temps in the 60's and by summer it will be higher, worldwide. This hydrological cycle is our AC and it's already strained to the breaking point as we continue to listen to a madman in DC and burn 8 B tons of coal annually, along with 100 M barrels of oil DAILY. So, adding another 2.2 X 10 to the 11th BTUs per DAY. may not look like much but Our Dear Mother Earth has had Her fill of our greed, human overpopulation, and overconsumption. Still want to bring another innocent life into this dying world, only to suffer and perish from all of the consequences of climate collapse? Hmmmm? Have a blessed day.
Data centers and crypto. They both have the same kind of effect on the environment.
The billionaire techno-bro-ligarchy has been behind all of it.
On average, each of the current 5,400 Data Centers in the US consumes 50MW of electricity, produced primarily by fossil fuel burning electric plants, and generates 4.1 X 10 to the 7th BTUs per day, so a total from all 5,400 of 2.2 X 10 to the 11th. And the number of these suicidal Data Centers is predicted to double over the next 4 yrs. As Jeff Goodell describes in his must read "The Heat Will Kill Us First", we are already producing/trapping (CO2) the heat energy equivalent of 8-11 Hiroshima nuclear bomb blasts PER SECOND, where each one releases the heat energy equivalent of 15 Kt of TNT, or 6.3 X 10 to the 13th J. So far we have been spared from bursting into flames by 1.2 trillion tons of melting global ice (each pound absorbs 144 BTUs) and 321 million cubic miles of rapidly heating oceans. NOAA's "surface analysis" weather map online today is showing Atlantic Ocean temps in the 60's and by summer it will be higher, worldwide. This hydrological cycle is our AC and it's already strained to the breaking point as we continue to listen to a madman in DC and burn 8 B tons of coal annually, along with 100 M barrels of oil DAILY. So, adding another 2.2 X 10 to the 11th BTUs per DAY. may not look like much but Our Dear Mother Earth has had Her fill of our greed, human overpopulation, and overconsumption. Still want to bring another innocent life into this dying world, only to suffer and perish from all of the consequences of climate collapse? Hmmmm? Have a blessed day.