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Heatwave is no joke... (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by return2ozma to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They buy power plants and run it themselves. It improves reliability. For example, Google owns its own solar and wind farms.

People are downvoting because they want to hate AI. And hating AI is valid. There are many reasons not to like AI. Environmental and power reasons are not one of them.

[–] otto_von 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But they are probably still using the power grid in cases where there is no wind or sun for their wind and solar farms, right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Batteries.

They can use backup generators or consumer power for emergencies. Almost never happens in practice.