The original link is a gift link, but some (not all) people get asked to register in order to access it

What’s actually working for transport is battery-electric. About half the heavy trucks in China sold in the past few months have been done like that.

My expectation is that we’ll see solar to hydrogen used for decarbonizing the chemicals industry, but not much else, largely because batteries have gotten so cheap and so energy dense.

That sadly doesn’t work terribly well (we burn a lot of methane producing fertilizer for the corn) and doesn’t scale up to the world.

Um what? Self-hosting search that actually covers the internet requires way more resources than people are likely to have. There are things you can self-host, but global internet search is not one of them.

This is what happens when companies are incentivized to turn on data centers fast above any kind of environmental protection or efficiency goal.

Returns on their billion dollar bribe

Water that salty is corrosive. You can’t just use it for datacenter cooling (or running a power plant) without removing the salt at considerable cost. It’s cheaper to bribe politicians to transfer fresh water into their use than it is to desalinate that and use it.

I’m not looking for a silver bullet. But part of success is demand avoidance. And creating demand at the scale the datacenters are doing is going to make it far far harder to get to zero.

Partial offset doesn’t stabilize temperature. It’s going to need to be 100%

They’re not even trying though

A single new datacenter in the pipeline from Amazon is going to consume above 7000MW. Landfill can and should be burned in useful ways, but it’s not going to supply anything like what the tech industry is planning to use.

The problem is not that they can’t work; some do. It’s that an uregulated supply chain for an injectable with no requirement to demonstrate safety or effectiveness is a recipe for a mix of dangerous products and snake oil

Brownfield development would be perfect for data centers, but it’s slower and costs more.

There isn’t undesired water or electricity sources available at anything like the scale the AI companies want though; these things use truly huge amounts of energy

It’s more that the news used to be funded in part (or whole) by advertising. Basically a newspaper was an ad delivery mechanism, with the news part being there only to get you to look at ads. Without that, news is unaffordable for most, so you end up with people just disconnecting.

I don’t regard a registration requirement from a very tiny source to be a problem.

Everybody can read it.

It literally only requires registration, not money. Deal with it

It does if you register. Small news outlets got to be funded somehow.

Be really nice to build some local community so that you can both self host and have this kind of support if you need it