A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener

Bobble9211@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.world – 112 points –
A New Type of Geothermal Power Plant Just Made the Internet a Little Greener
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Are you sure thats not a picture of the upcomming RTX 7090 TI

I do appreciate Google listing the carbon consumption per GCP datacenter when deploying a new workload. It allows customers to make low carbon choices for compute.

I assume the Paris value is only that low when their nuclear plants aren't shut, down like basically all of '23

I mean, instead of mining Uran, refining it, bother with toxic waste in each step, why not harness the power of natural radioactive decay?

Btw, weren't effective MASER drills invented a short while ago?