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Environment & Energy

Maninacan

(209 posts)

2. Energy usage

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Dec 27, 2025, 04:14 PM

12 hrs ago

Heard a radio segment this morning about Home solar. People are really going for it tax credit or not. They see electricity costs going up. An installer said they have seen ups and downs and expect a little downturn but plan on staying in business.

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AI data centers use so much energy and water: [View all] applegrove 12 hrs ago OP

why don't they put these things on ye ocean and use the waste heat for desalinization? rampartd 12 hrs ago #1

Energy usage Maninacan 12 hrs ago #2

Some really creepy stuff has made it into my social media feeds Klarkashton 12 hrs ago #3

AI is just a flash in the pan bucolic_frolic 12 hrs ago #4

crash tmars505 12 hrs ago #5

meh. prolly will, but the dotcom 'bust' had a cause. mopinko 11 hrs ago #6

Google, Apple, Nvidia, Amazon, Palantir, TSMC and the other majors will be here GreatGazoo 11 hrs ago #7

LOL! Sounds like a headline that AI would write! GreatGazoo 11 hrs ago #8

A thought occurred to me about a strange similarity in the Science Fiction world to this AI stuff. marked50 10 hrs ago #9