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I'd sooner remove the panels from my roof.
"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

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