Can computing clean up its act? The industry consumes as much electricity as Britain—and rising

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    1 year ago

    tbh i don’t worry too much about datacenters because they can be built under the land, under ice, alone in the desert full of solar panels and so on. the heat in the winter can also be used to heat houses if it’s in the city…

    the sad part is that most of that energy is used for bullshit tasks for surveillance capitalism.