A Solution to A.I.'S Growing Power Demand: Homes

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/business/energy-environment/ai-data-centers-tesla.html

by 1vuio0pswjnm7 • 27 days ago

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cdrnsf2• 27 days ago

I'd sooner remove the panels from my roof.

1vuio0pswjnm7• 27 days ago

"The artificial intelligence boom has a big problem."

"Enlisting individuals to help the grid and paying them for it may also help defuse some of the public anger directed at data centers and large power projects."

Like residential proxies to evade rate-limiting and IP bans

cdrnsf2• 27 days ago

They’re building a future only they want by burrowing into everything like ticks.

aerodexis• 27 days ago

I like the idea of small, artisinal, solar-farm-to-desk DataCenters.

jraph• 27 days ago

In France we just turned off nuclear plants due to the heatwave. Heatwave probably in part caused by climate change, itself caused by us being already too power hungry.

We could do without AI for a bit maybe and focus on actual needs and on reducing our power hungriness instead.

A Solution to A.I.'S Growing Power Demand: Homes

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