248
Microsoft and Chevron plan one of the largest gas-powered data center projects in US
(techcrunch.com)
These fuckin' assholes are literally trying to kill us all.
this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2026
248 points (99.2% liked)
Technology
87151 readers
4410 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
That's been obvious for a while.
Fossil Fascism in action
New Dystopia Setting Unlocked!
FOR WHAT? there are already plenty of DCs we dont NEED MORE STOP BUILDING THEM. SAVE THE FREAKING TREES AND THE ANIMALS. DON"T KILL THE PLANET FFS!
at the rate they're building these things, either they're getting severe kickbacks or someone has the goods on them. I'm not seeing any other justification for building them so insistently.
Its stock market manipulation.
The second they don't look like an exponential growth curve, they are over-valued and crash.
Nah, they're addicted to being first and everyone's running this race so you gotta race faster than them. They know a collapse is coming, but those only affect poors and the collapse will make subsequent investing much cheaper.
If you're thinking about consequences, you're not doing capitalism well enough to be on top anyways.
It also fucks over anyone who manages or uses a computer. Each one makes our hardware more expensive.
Microsoft actually doesn't seem to have enough data center capacity: Microsoft forced to turn to AWS to boost GitHub cloud capacity following AI demand surge
No, Microsoft has enough, they've just slop coded so much bloat in that they choose to not address while piling more and more vibe coding tools on top (which is why they are spinning up more capacity, to feed LLM slop code into).
Sounds like they do now tho.
SAVE THE FREAKING TREES AND THE ANIMALS
and the RAM!
more RAMS YES
think of the shareholders
Of course they do.
This is the stupidest way to power computers. Gas powered computers? Wtf lol
This is not the steampunk world I wished for man.
Natural gas power plants are one of the most efficient and clean in terms of COP.
there is no such thing as a gas powered computer. Maybe they meant a gas powered plant that would transmit electricity.
there is no gas powered computer, that's the equivalent of saying I can make weed out of plutonium.
I can't even look at the page because these corporate shills have to track me one way or another, it's probably just coorporate propaganda.
There's no climate change. Renewable energy plants are too expensive!
Can't tell if your spouting idiotic nonsense or being sarcastic
Poster is a Corvid, not a Parrot. Sarcasm for sure! They are smartiepants.
Looks like sarcasm
How many words do you require? I wrote, "There's no climate change." The Trump admin is well known for considering climate change a hoax. However, this story is what I had in mind when I wrote that sentence, I'm pretty sure it was a Lemmy.world link from the same day, although I do get text-based news elsewhere.
I also wrote, "Renewable energy plants are too expensive!" Note the exclamation point"!". I often use it instead of a smiley or a sarcasm mark. Sarcasm doesn't really apply to a truthful observation, such as "I wish it was sarcasm," and I'm often in a state of indecision in such cases. But perhaps my posting history would explain better? I'm not sure what 35 square miles of photovoltaics would cost, I seem to recall "billions" of dollars being mentioned. What is the cost of some natural gas turbines in comparison?
Do you suppose if and when Democrats take back power from Republicans, these natural-gas turbines can be legally shut down and renewable-energy plants mandated? Will they be allowed to continue operations instead? Do you suppose that the powers that be will just extract every last barrel of crude they can extract and turn it into CO2?
Americans need to fix their shit. We're all guilty of fucking up the planet but this escalation is fucking criminal.
I assume you mean the Americans in charge. The Americans in charge are making loads of money, why would they stop?
The rest of us have zero power. We're barely surviving at this point. Countless Americans are dying of preventable illnesses and becoming slaves to debt from food, housing and/or medical prices.
So many people have this hilariously incorrect view of what's going on over here. Maybe stop listening to the people in charge of us, eh? This country is so fucking broken right now.
I see people here everyday wishing death upon Russians and Israelis for what their governments are doing, most of those posters are probably American, yet you expect a special treatment? I don't even know what the people in charge of you are saying, what I see is your government's actions and what you guys post on Lemmy.
Who would plan a gas powered data center in a post- Hormuz era?? This is either a boondoggle or the planners are dumber than a sack of hot doorknobs
The suicidally/omnicidally corrupt.
Totally consistent with us being pushed to use MS Copilot. The Chevron types are those that push fossil fuels on us, like they push ICE cars over EVs, and fossil methane over renewables.
In 2010, I thought, maybe we'd start using electric cars by now. Instead we are using gas powered computers.
Gas powered computers.
That are unreliable and broken.
just shoot them
I agree
It’s always fucking Texas
Yay, we surely need a 2.67GW heater!
Microsoft needs new leadership.
Asshats