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US slows plans to retire coal plants because of AI power usage (www.ft.com)

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[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

Two excerpts from the article that hurt my soul:

"You can’t replace the fossil plants fast enough to meet the demand,” said Joe Craft, chief executive of Alliance Resource Partners, one of the largest US coal producers. “In order to be a first mover on AI, we’re going to need to embrace maintaining what we have.”

and

"We need more energy, not less,” Indiana’s Republican governor, Eric Holcomb, told the Financial Times. “We absolutely as Americans can’t afford to lose the AI war.”

Yikes.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Just bomb all AI centers and we're good, right?

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