Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.

Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.

  • bretton.dev@coves.social
    60·
    2 days 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.

      • Xanthobilly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 days 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.

    • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      Off topic, but are renwables like Ben wa balls?

      Ren wables, but she won’t fall down?

      Renwa bless? (Papa bless, oh fuck oh shit thats an H3 joke. I take it back)

      I’ll be here all week

      Sorry

  • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    2 days 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.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
      123·
      2 days ago

      See my other comment. It doesn’t make sense to buy other companies energy infrastructure

      • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
        181·
        2 days ago

        Right “big company can’t find a green powered data center” doesn’t really bouy anyone’s spirits. What are you doing here again? Supporting billionaires and climate change.

        What an odd goal to spend your time on.

  • lath@piefed.socialEnglish
    20·
    2 days 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.

  • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I really don’t understand why the industry needs so many data centers. Why do they all keep needing to build them, and why can’t they work out an arrangement for sharing?

  • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
    123·
    2 days ago

    Anthropic don’t own data centres, they rent their compute. Investing in every infrastructure for other companies would be short sighted to say the least. One of those hate the game not the player situations

    • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      2 days ago

      One of those hate the game not the player situations

      It’s really not. Billionaires bribe governments, adjust the rules to serve themselves. The players are making up the game as they go along… And thus, deserve the blame for it being a shitty game.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
        121·
        2 days ago

        Billionaires lobby governments. We can lobby governments too, but when do you see the people complaining crowd fund projects like that?

        • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
          142·
          2 days ago

          “When billionaires do it, people get angry - but when the people do it, people don’t complain! It’s like this is a democracy or something!”

          Honestly, what are you doing? Like, why do you choose to defend billionaires with your time? Were you abused or something as a kid? Do you just like BDSM? Are you perhaps a fascist or against democracy?

          …also, just the idea that “more money in government” is the answer. You’re just full of bad ideas. Clearly a big fan of the Capitalist mindset.

          • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
            312·
            2 days ago

            I’m an election volunteer and I have written policy for some political parties which was then adopted by some of the major parties here.

            I have made a difference and effected some important change.

            What are you doing? Do you just like to insult people on the internet and stay chronically online?

            • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
              63·
              2 days ago

              Really? Trying to make it personal? Bragging about political involvements?

              That’s… not the winner you might think it is here. Clearly, you feel insulted, targetted and hurt. Well, let me help: this is just the internet dude. A few bad interactions, or bad comments you got downvoted on - doesn’t define you. Your whole self or considered phrasing/opinions weren’t in those comments. It’s not the end of the world, you and I aren’t in a “prove your political cred or die” situation.

              You shouldn’t take it personally because this is not a personal space. I don’t know you. It’s anonymous. That’s part of the nature of the internet/comments section.

              Like everyone always says: don’t read the comments. Chill out mother fucker, don’t throw good time/money after bad because there’ll be more comments to make tomorrow with different allies and different enemies. That’s just how things work here.

              • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
                16·
                2 days ago

                You literally just asked what I am doing politically? Take a break dude, go for a walk or something lol

                • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  71·
                  2 days ago

                  Oh, no, that’s not how I meant it… See how I’ve asked you what’s you’re doing with your time before, and why you’re leaning the ways you do in your comments.

                  I didn’t mean “what are you doing IRL”… I meant, what are you doing with your comments, as in - what’s their function… What are they supporting. Why do you stick on these bad lines/arguments despite their flaws?

                  …and it was a rehtorical question. Not to be taken litterally but to be taken as what are you doing with your efforts in these specific comments.

                  An interrogative.

        • tomcatt360@lemmy.zipEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          People actually do crowdfund that kind of thing. You just do not hear about them as much because they do not have a PR budget. But there is a basic asymmetry here. One approval can be worth millions to a single company, so spending serious money lobbying for it is a good investment. For the neighbors, the harm, which includes noise, air pollution, and lower property values, is spread across hundreds of families. Everybody loses a little, even if the total harm is huge, so it is much harder to raise the same money. That is the classic collective action problem And residents are not lobbying for a handout. They are asking the government not to let a company profit by putting its costs on people who get none of the upside

    • paranoia@feddit.dkEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      Anthropic rent compute to make up for their own shortfalls in ownership. You can see on their careers site that they are hiring datacentre designers.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
        210·
        2 days ago

        Very interesting observation, as far as I can find they’re not building anything significant yet?

        Looking at the company ownership, it seems most of the company is owned by a trust that’s committed to doing the best thing for humanity (?) so hopefully we see some green future data centres

        • paranoia@feddit.dkEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I don’t hold out much hope for them. I think they are the most interesting AI company, but I would bet they are also of the belief that the environment should be sacrificed for AI progress, as they also believe that AI will fix everything later