But this proposed data center is so big, it would have its own dedicated energy from gas generation and renewable sources

Very unfortunate, as this could have been an opportunity to advance the green power agenda. Solar, wind, and nuclear are all more efficient than fossil fuels -- so why build new fossil fuel plants?

Every time you thank ChatGPT, a house goes dark in Wyoming

Genuinely curious - has Texas been getting fewer residential outages since they expanded capacity for crypto mining? I'd imagine the same economics apply here.

misinformation about declining birth rates

What misinformation? Every expert on the subject is agreeing that we're at or below replacement rate.

I was looking for someone to say this. Then realized not many people here watch recent movies.

I mean my opinion is if your plan is to take away everybody's healthcare, collapse the economy, close public schools, and decrease quality of life in general, plus do all these other crazy things that put the mother's life at risk, why would it be a good idea to encourage as many new births as possible?

Also, I know n=1 but I really wanted to have another kid last year, but put it off specifically bc of the crazy laws Republicans started passing that put maternal health at risk. Honestly, I'm relieved I didn't bc the economy has also gotten so bad since then and everything is so uncertain. Now when I read stories about brain dead women being forced to be kept alive to carry a fetus and give birth it makes me wonder if I'll ever want to risk having another baby.

I think it's dishonest to pretend that current birthrates in the U.S. at least aren't in part a reflection of many women's fears about giving birth during such a chaotic time.

I wasn't referring to the US in particular, but global birth rates.

Just a moment...

(www.science.org)

Edit to add: I'm in no way commenting on the situation in the States, just clearing up a potential misconception I see very frequently, which is that the global population is still booming, when we should already be worrying about the opposite.

More like most people don't watch anything other then studio tentpole and popcorn muncher movies

I dunno, I'm from New Jersey. I can tell you about New Jersey though. Our two main providers of electric and gas utilities are PSEG and JCPL. Putting aside that they're both major corporations and those suck, JCPL also sucks at providing the service it basically forces you to get (because there's obviously no real alternatives), and PSEG is pretty good. I have not had a legitimate (>2 hours) power outage since I bought my home 11+ years ago. Regardless of my good fortune, we experience struggles in presumably the same fashion as much of the country: the hots are hotter and shit is expensive AF.

I'm sorry none of this is relevant.

Wyoming is corrupt as fuck. Coal is in charge there

*a barn goes dark

I have seen impulsive gaslighting and malicious classified spill out of every one of these ai. Straight up doing verbal abuse.

Edit: I'm gonna go on. I forget what I was talking about, but I was connecting various facts and asking about Epstein stuff. It immediately and repeatedly classified it as non serious conspiracy, and after pressing, presented facts backing 4 out of 5 of the things it said was crazy, and there have been books written saying the exact same thing.

Remember how we were told to switch to led lights and efficient appliances to conserve power? Guess it was just to save it for data centers.

Fake news! Everyone knows Wyoming was made up by the deep state and doesn't actually exist.

or use less water because the AI center needs it to cool off. its funny how all these AI data centers are only in red states, they dont make a fuss over it, but if they tried this a blue one, people would raise hell over it.

its was so that coal/gas/oil dont need to reduce thier own footprint, they moved onto "you should reduce yours" and were funding fake eco-activism and "reduce your footprint companies" so we dont do it.

Residential homes use about 12% of the consumed fresh water in the United States.

Their whole industries that scrape a bit of profit off of a huge amount of America's water. Like exporting alfalfa grown in a desert.

Because solar and wind plants, while they can be cheap and relatively fast to build, are not as reliable as a datacenter need and it is not predictable, so at most they can supplement some other generation method, in this scenario. Then ok, you probably need less fossil fuel (but gas is not necessary fossil these days).
And a nuclear plant is probably way longer to build than the datacenter itself, if you ever get the green light to build it.

Yes, and my bill become 1/5 of what it was, so maybe is was a not so stupid thing to do.