On Mon, 17 Aug 2026 at 17:20, Joerg Jaspert <[email protected]> wrote:
> You must have your head very deep down in the sand to not see all the > news about the various datacenter / ai companies planning ever larger > "factories". With extra coal/gas power plants just for them. Larger > values of those for single data centers than needed to run whole > countries on this world (and notan under-developed country even). Lots > of them companies entirely ditching their "green it" plans (however they > named their plans to go co2-neutral, whatever one may think about those > plans in general). Companies bragging about crazy plans is about as realistic as Elon bragging about coast-to-coast full-self-driving ride no later than 2018 with zero human interaction (including charging). Or Elon planning for at least 20 million Tesla electric cars sold per-year by 2028. With production speed "mainly" concerned by air friction of the completed cars leaving the factory. Or how pets.com planned to make revenue ten times larger than entrire worlds pet food and product supply volume at the time. Fairy tales for gullible investors. 95% of those plans will never see completion. None of them have an actual business plan on how they *actually* expect to make profit on this given current efficiency and what people are actually ready to pay for AI. Taking those hyperscaler plans seriosly is a complete waste. Meanwhile serious companies have provided 100% green datacenters for *ages*. You can run your own AI in https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-gpu/ - completely green. And a lot of companies runnign their own AI do just that. All of the EU AI initiatives (including the internaltional ones that are training frontier-scale models) use 100% renewable power by default. Focusing on a few, very loud, USA-based startups looses the real forest of AI that is being grown all over the world on completely different sets of values. -- Best regards, Aigars Mahinovs
