Surprise: Tech Companies Ditch Their Climate (scam) Goals For AI Power

Seriously, most of these tech companies, like most companies, were really just setting goals and saying they were doing “green” stuff but weren’t actually doing much of anything

Powering AI Leapfrogs Climate Concerns

It’s Climate Week in New York, and dominating the conversation has been the apparently insatiable appetite of artificial intelligence for power.

The subject has been much in the news. Just last week, we learned that the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania will be restarted to supply electricity to Microsoft Corp.’s data centers.

Then Tuesday, Bloomberg News reported that ChatGPT creator OpenAI had pitched the Biden administration on its vision for massive data centers that may each consume enough power to run an entire city.

Alarmingly for climate hawks, it’s become clear there’s not enough low-emission energy — nuclear or otherwise — to satisfy AI, and natural gas will be key.

The boss of EQT Corp., America’s largest producer of the fossil fuel, said data centers will be the biggest new source of US gas demand in the years ahead.

Indeed, the country’s energy companies already plan a slew of new gas-fired power projects. That could complicate the energy transition and threaten President Joe Biden’s lofty goal of ridding emissions from the grid by 2035.

These companies generally have investors/stock holders who want return on their investment. They want profit. They aren’t doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, they, and the companies, are there to make money. Focusing on the climate scam has been shown to mostly be a loser. As for Brandon’s lofty goals, well, how many gallons of fossil fuels does he use every week going to and from his houses in Delaware on helicopters, jumbo jets, and big limos?

Yet recent days have given another reminder of how energy security (and national security, given US competition with China over AI) can leap to the top of the political and business agenda, leaving climate concerns trailing.

The climate scam is all sorts of important right up till real world concerns intrude.

Meanwhile, remember, the climate cult totally doesn’t want to implement socialism

Those running the water corporations are now certifiably insane, as well as corrupt and incompetent.

Nationalise NOW, without compensation.https://t.co/P9tO08cCyK

— Bill McGuire (@ProfBillMcGuire) September 26, 2024

Nationalization worked out well in Venezuela, eh?

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