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As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth’s surface.
(www.nytimes.com)
This article was almost surely placed because it came out that the tech firms were using accounting techniques to obscure their impact:
Can someone catch me up here, please? The last I read, fracking was typically seen as an environmentally unfriendly process because you break up a bunch of underlying rock, pump out the crude, and replace it with water. It destabilizes the area and leads to shit like small earthquakes. So like, drilling down, releasing a bunch of heat/pressure, and flooding the system with a bunch of water without caring about the oil is supposed to be a safer thing to do? What gives?
They're doing it in places with no oil to just get the heat.
There may be issues with what's used for fracking granite, bit probably won't be the issues with hydrocarbon leakage or waste injection