cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74728400

Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.

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    The Bloomberg article (archive link) cites several studies that make different projections about the amount emissions will increase, but all agree that the cause is additional fossil-fuel-based power generation for AI data centers. There’s consensus that the cause of severely increased US emissions is AI data centers. No one is suggesting it comes from anywhere else.