Do not patronize these systems, regardless of how small you think your individual impact might be. User counts are used to justify continued investments in these things.
I mean they use electricity, you want to advocate for more renewables in your energy mix locally then it doesn’t matter that they use lots of it because it’s renewable anyway
Right so France will probably export less electricity to Germany. Germany will . . .
a) use less power
b) burn more coal/gas
OK so lets invent option c) where we get Germany build some more nukes. Fine in 20 years time they might have 3-4GW of new nuke capacity, but in the meanwhile . . . there will have been several new data centres built in that time, and millions of houses in the UK will have started using aircon . . . and . . . we’ll be getting pretty close to 500ppm global carbon dioxide anyway.
then it doesn’t matter that they use lots of it because it’s renewable anyway
It does, it always does. There’s for one grey energy, and more importantly this energy can’t be used somewhere else where otherwise fossil fuels were used. We should always be efficient with our energy use…
Then we need to use it, there’s a high demand for hydrogen (not for electricity) for instance, so excess energy should just either be stored or converted to H.
Do not patronize these systems, regardless of how small you think your individual impact might be. User counts are used to justify continued investments in these things.
People need to just say no.
I mean they use electricity, you want to advocate for more renewables in your energy mix locally then it doesn’t matter that they use lots of it because it’s renewable anyway
for example mistral is french: https://chat.mistral.ai/chat
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/mgx-bpifrance-nvidia-and-mistral-ai-plan-14gw-paris-data-center-campus/
And how much co2 does it output? hardly any because France has tons of nuclear power plants:
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/72h/hourly
Right so France will probably export less electricity to Germany. Germany will . . . a) use less power b) burn more coal/gas
OK so lets invent option c) where we get Germany build some more nukes. Fine in 20 years time they might have 3-4GW of new nuke capacity, but in the meanwhile . . . there will have been several new data centres built in that time, and millions of houses in the UK will have started using aircon . . . and . . . we’ll be getting pretty close to 500ppm global carbon dioxide anyway.
https://www.climate.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_stretch_featured_image/public/2025-05/ghg-1-co2.png?itok=Krb3c_bB
If you’re going to keep having more people, and people are going to keep buying the same or more stuff each, this line will keep going up.
It does, it always does. There’s for one grey energy, and more importantly this energy can’t be used somewhere else where otherwise fossil fuels were used. We should always be efficient with our energy use…
You think all nuclear power plants and renewables are running at max capacity all the time?
Then we need to use it, there’s a high demand for hydrogen (not for electricity) for instance, so excess energy should just either be stored or converted to H.