• shameless@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 months ago

    Remember when people were rightly upset about the power usage of bitcoin, I’d love to know collectively how much tech companies are using in comparison to produce this slop.

    • Flip@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      6·
      2 months ago

      I don’t have a source for numbers, but I’ve read a handful headlines about tech companies building nuclear reactors for their datacenters.

      • Flip@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        7·
        2 months ago

        Not to say that they’re somehow clean, more so that the energy demand is insane enough to warrant considerations like this

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        If they are willing to spend billions and years to build one, and even longer to bring it up to regulation, not in this administration though