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@alex

This bit:

“Will data centers go the way of shopping malls? Likely not--they'll be repurposed for other massive computing projects. But what about those climate pledges? Will they be continued to be kicked down the road? To 2050? To 2075? Likely to some time which is too little, too late.”

Reminds me of what fossil fuel corps and governments seem to be stuck on: all this identified “resource” in the ground, would be a shame to just leave it there… and so we go smashing through promises about 1.5C.

In both cases, it’s not because this stuff served people’s needs or because we can’t live without it but because capital can’t grow without it and growing capital is really all they care about