Google quietly removes net-zero carbon goal from website amid rapid power-hungry AI data center buildout — industry-first sustainability pledge moved to background amidst AI energy crisis

This exactly. And fuck tomshardware for even using "AI energy crisis"

Google and the rest of them need to get off their asses and lobby Trump to stop killing wind and solar projects.

Why would they do that when they can in-house capacity they need and leach the public grid for the rest?

This whole manufactured crisis is so tech corps and oil companies can make more profits at everyone else’s expense.

And it's working out great. Both these industries are making a killing.

I think the AI isn't there because it's a helpful tool. They're pushing some agenda. As they do with making Android less open source, development more difficult and all kinds of things they're doing lately.

The energy use and inefficiency is a critical part of a broader strategy to edge society into a normalization of people being denied basic necessities like electricity and water.

Broadly speaking, solar and wind are so cheap and so resilient to long term price shocks that they've fully taken over new energy build outs.

This isn't a question of carbon offsets. It's a question of "What's most cost efficient?" And, by the GWh, it is green energy by inches, soon by yards.

Shame all that new capacity is being squandered to digitally masturbate. We could use it to decommission old fossil fuel plants, rather than stacking them up side by side.