Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.

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    It’s being used by oil companies as a scape goat if anything. Global warming is now caused by AI, not the gas in the turbines tho.

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    Organize action on what works. DCs work. Given how much overlap there is between DCs and climate, latch on DCs action without doing Uhm Akshually about climate. It already contributes to that goal. No need to inject a less useful uberpropagandized dimension to it.

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    We saw this with the crypto mining business. Big Fossil Hydrocarbon is looking for more demand, more burners.