Um what? Self-hosting search that actually covers the internet requires way more resources than people are likely to have. There are things you can self-host, but global internet search is not one of them.

This is what happens when companies are incentivized to turn on data centers fast above any kind of environmental protection or efficiency goal.

Returns on their billion dollar bribe

Water that salty is corrosive. You can’t just use it for datacenter cooling (or running a power plant) without removing the salt at considerable cost. It’s cheaper to bribe politicians to transfer fresh water into their use than it is to desalinate that and use it.

I’m not looking for a silver bullet. But part of success is demand avoidance. And creating demand at the scale the datacenters are doing is going to make it far far harder to get to zero.

Partial offset doesn’t stabilize temperature. It’s going to need to be 100%

They’re not even trying though

A single new datacenter in the pipeline from Amazon is going to consume above 7000MW. Landfill can and should be burned in useful ways, but it’s not going to supply anything like what the tech industry is planning to use.

Brownfield development would be perfect for data centers, but it’s slower and costs more.

There isn’t undesired water or electricity sources available at anything like the scale the AI companies want though; these things use truly huge amounts of energy

That’s really insane, given how people I know left Venezuela because of a lack of food

Be really nice to build some local community so that you can both self host and have this kind of support if you need it