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US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges (news.slashdot.org)
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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 months ago

This is a bad article, with a misleading headline.

It shows no direct connection between the two, it just talks about how AI models are less power efficient than search engines, and then talks about how all industries including normal, non AI data centers, manufacturing, etc, are all increasing power usage.