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The Adaptation Trap: Why Renewables Cannot Help Clean Up AI

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9d ago like, yes, i hate datacenters powered by fossil fuels and think that they should not exist but i dream of ones powered by renewables and serving thousands if not millions of people around the worl… +6.0
9d ago Vote for every democrat in every election at every level from here on out for at least a decade to fix our nation and to fix texass power grid, reinstatimg Obama and Biden's data center regulation… -3.5
10d ago While Alberta risks boxing itself in, Ontario is proving what’s possible when we let innovation lead. We don’t need false dilemmas of "either or;" it is not either renewables or natural gas. A mod… ×2 +3.0
8d ago Venezuela? Really? They cannot feed their population provide a stable power grid. -5.0
9d ago open.substack.com/pub/revsandy... With the heat wave, the power grid is under strain, here we discuss how we cannot only add to the national electric grid but create many new well paid entrepreneurs +2.0
9d ago 🌎 Story of the Day: New Jersey is letting data centers fund home energy upgrades to help reduce overall demand on the power grid. +4.0
9d ago Hi Bluesky I'm in danger again! Ever since we had a huge power outage last week I've been struggling with starvation and ending up in the hospital. I have a week to come up with rent and medicatio… -8.0
8d ago Support clean power, Indigenous rights, and jobs with an east-west grid. Canada’s electricity demand will double, or even triple, by 2050. We need a power grid that is fit for the future that provi… +7.0
8d ago I suppose that’s why the Carney government wants to double the already very clean Canadian electricity grid to replace home and commercial building heating and transportation fossil fuels with elec… +6.0
9d ago ☀️ From Mine to Megawatt: How NLR Is Securing Critical Mineral Supply Chains for the Power Grid https://cleantechnica.com/2026/07/16/from-mine-to-megawatt-how-nlr-is-securing-critical-mineral-supp… +4.0
9d ago we could have had a clean electric grid decades ago if not for successful astroturfing by the fossil industry against nuclear power -2.0
9d ago Picture this: it's a hot day in July. The electric grid is subject to extreme strain as Californians try to stay cool. Enter: the Demand Side Grid Support program. @leahstokes.bsky.social explain… +5.0
9d ago The bit of net zero where consensus has broken down isn't really the electricity grid bit anyway is it. That is going to be significantly decarbonised by 2030 even if it doesn't get quite get to th… +4.0
9d ago OPINION: Artificial intelligence data centers are poised to transform California's electric grid — but they might also rescue rooftop solar from years of political backlash, say clean-energy advoca… +3.5
9d ago Europe’s clean tech superpower is the electrical grid +5.5
10d ago #Cuba had its third nationwide power grid collapse in one week and fifth this year. The outages are disrupting electricity, clean water, telecommunications, health services and economic activity, … -7.0

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