Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, floods and other extreme weather linked to climate change.
Hydropower Is Getting Less Reliable as the World Needs More Energy
Submitted 2 weeks ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Except that the world doesn’t need more energy. AI data centres need more energy. The world doesn’t need AI data centres either; investors need them to make money. Which is why AI is being shoehorned into everything. Nobody asked for Clippy to inaccurately summarise their emails or give answers to questions that have a plausible vibe, but it profits the powerful and well-connected for these things to exist, so we get them anyway.
silence7@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
We do however need a lot more electricity to move people off fossil fuels.
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 weeks ago
Not more than renewables can provide.