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Scary Mary Branscombe
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Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Buy me a ☕ @ lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. #nohello
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the energy use is up in data centres and AI is part of it, but we're also just *using more cloud services* (source, the Uptime Institute) and the more people yell about the inaccurate figures (which appear to include hydropower under water use!) the less traction they get on real energy impact
Yep, 100%.
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Scary Mary Branscombe
@marypcbuk.bsky.social
Omnivorous technology journalist. girl with the USB earring; author of the Cassidy At Large technomysteries. Buy me a ☕ @ lnkiy.in/IV9SD. she/her. Warning: contains opinions. #nohello
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