this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
132 points (82.4% liked)

Technology

60070 readers
3565 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
[email protected]
[email protected]
L4s
enu
132
Because AI and Crypto use so much electricity, what if a law was made that they had to power it with green energy? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
79 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Something on the lines of if your company facility is using over X amount of energy the majority of that has to be from a green source such as solar power. What would happen and is this feasible or am I totally thinking about this wrong

Edit: Good responses from everyone, my point in asking this was completely hypothetical, ignoring how hard it would be to implement a restriction. My own thoughts are that requiring the use of renewable energy for high electricity products could help spur the demand for it as now it's a requirement. Of course companies would fight back, they want money

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] atrielienz 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They would get around that with green washing the way a lot of companies are these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It all depends on the details, but power is a local produced good and is not something that can be escaped with laws that want to stop carbon emissions.

[–] atrielienz 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You say that like the laws we have right now against carbon emissions are working. I get what you're saying but the laws probably need a re-write.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The current laws most certainly do not work. The fact that they don't work is a willing failure on the part of the lawmakers.