Posted by cdrnsf 1 day ago
Why not use all that wasted heat energy to power all these datacenters?
(and why not build the datacenters at the Bakken formation)
You can see the burnoff from SPACE and it's for months at a time at each location, tell me that does nothing to global temperatures?
(look at the date on these photos, two decades of burnoff wasted energy)
* https://www.cnbc.com/2013/01/28/shale-gas-boom-now-visible-f...
* https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/at-night-giant-fie...
Pretty sure the flares aren't anything like that anymore because some regulations changed where they can't flare so much, but yeah that was a crazy time period.
Probably not profitable enough to set up the infrastructure to capture, store, transport, and sell that as a product. Profit potential is the only factor that matters to decision makers.
Or one in Copenhagen, I didn't realize some small amount of my hot water (and heating in the winter) came from a datacentre. Neat.
I wonder what profits would need to be for a private energy company to install additional equipment at a remote fracking site to capture the burn off energy to then sell to a data center to then use.
That means reducing any bottlenecks around not just data-center construction, but also adjacent industries like power generation and transmission.
If the U.S. can scale the infrastructure around AI faster than other countries, it can gain a decisive economies of scale advantage in numerous industries that could lead to export boom.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/02/09/totalenergies-signs-1...
Also Google and itself. I guess there's a difference between Google and Microsoft after all.
https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/doc...
Solar turbines is an interesting name for a gas turbine company. "It's green energy, we put solar in our name"
Its origin is traced back to a 1929 company, Solar Aircraft Company.
Confusing as it may be for people like yourself, I don’t think it really defends posting sarcasm that is not based in reality.
You can call this whatever you want.
Name recognition matters especially to people in particular segments.