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Ket-arbon Emissions Joshi
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Fighting alongside my friends for the best possible pathway to climate justice and fossil fuel elimination. Anti-greenwashing. Creator / curator of Greensky: tinyurl.com/3jk8zrt8 ketanjoshi.co/ ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
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If you are operating on the assumption that meeting all of this new electricity demand with clean sources will be an effortless, lightweight, thoughtless little breeze with PLENTY of leftover time, money, tech and political will, you might see no problem with the red slice.............

Figure 4.11 Electricity demand growth by end-use in the STEPS, 2023-2030, and data centre sensitivity cases Electricity demand growth, 2023-30 6 760 TWh Electricity demand sensitivities for data centres, 2030 200 150 100 50 X Data centres Space heating Desalination Heavy industry Spare cooling -50 -100 -150 Dafa centres account for a small share of global elechictly demand growth to 2020. and plausible high and low sensitivities do not change the outlook fundamentally Note: Other includes electricity demand from from agriculture, Electricity for generation, nor transmission or distribution losses demand does not indude any
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I may be a hysterical, panicky activist but I do not think any of those things is easy or effortless or cheap or on track, so seeing such a substantial amount of the space crowded by something as obscenely inefficient and pointless as chatbots and image generators feels deeply worrying.

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Ket-arbon Emissions Joshi
@ketanjoshi.co
Fighting alongside my friends for the best possible pathway to climate justice and fossil fuel elimination. Anti-greenwashing. Creator / curator of Greensky: tinyurl.com/3jk8zrt8 ketanjoshi.co/ ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
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