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pizzuh | 9 months ago

Energy use is going to continue to climb.

I'm worried about the environmental impacts of this, but from everything I've seen society values model output more. Curious to watch this over the rest of the decade.

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jes5199|9 months ago

solar and battery costs are falling so fast that emissions are likely to go down, even with growth in energy use

edhelas|9 months ago

Sure sure, you did the maths ?

How many batteries do you need to power-up a datacenter at night ?

pizzuh|9 months ago

Great point. Assuming we can adopt them at the correct pace and on a global scale, then energy doesn't have to be a limiting factor