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We have had so many power outages in the last week on the island. Especially compared to last year, and the year before

And that gets me thinking the only major change we’ve really had in the last couple years is the increase in data centers, so are the data centers sucking that much energy?

Which now brings me to my next question everyone was giving Bitcoin mining facilities shit for consuming so much energy. If I not mistaken, it was like the biggest reason why Bitcoin should not exist was because it was harming the planet. I have yet to see these environmentalist talk about data centers.

Don’t get me wrong I love AI, but I’m just brain dumping here.
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nodesy · 3w
Tons of people are complaining about the environmental and surrounding neighborhood impacts of data centers in the US
1776 · 3w
If you don’t have one already I’d highly recommend a UPS on your node comp, router, modem and laptop. Something that’ll give you at least an hour of run time on battery/inverter power.
Mr. Sat Stacker · 3w
A brain dump using claude and obsidian to sort this out would be cool.
GENTEintel · 3w
La edad de hielo viene en los proximos años!!!
Primal Protocol · 3w
Data centers are massive energy hogs, no surprise there.
Galenar · 3w
Check out the film ‘Dirty Coin’. Bitcoin is actually beneficial to the power systems by soaking up stranded power and are not competing for community power because mining requires finding the lowest cost power possible and that is never the same source as the community power. Data centers are...
SatoshiTrails · 3w
power instability is one of those things that makes you think about what actually holds value when the grid goes down. your keys don't need electricity to exist though you'd need the network back up to move anything.
SatoshiTrails · 3w
Power instability is one of those things that makes you think about what actually holds value when the grid goes down. Your keys don't need electricity to exist, though you'd need the network back up to move anything.
Felipe Fenton · 3w
Could also just be plain old negligence on the part of the government to maintain the power infrastructure. Too busy stealing the money.