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AI Needs So Much Power, It’s Making Yours Worse (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago

Power use by the Washington/Oregon data center cluster was almost entirely covered by a local surplus of hydropower until a couple years ago. That might be why it looks different from elsewhere.