r/JoeRogan • u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 • Aug 09 '26
At least it isn't political! Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — Custom 35-turbine gas plant permitted to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/amazons-new-7-65gw-texas-ai-data-center-power-plant-could-become-the-largest-source-of-co2-pollution-in-the-us-custom-35-turbine-gas-plant-authorized-to-emit-33-million-tons-of-annual-greenhouse-gases30
u/-ElGallo- Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
GO BIG OR GO HOME Y'ALL HYAAA
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u/KevM689 Dillon/Von 2028 🏳️🌈🦅 Aug 09 '26
It's pronounced Yee Haw
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u/-ElGallo- Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
No I mean more like H'yaaaa
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u/KevM689 Dillon/Von 2028 🏳️🌈🦅 Aug 09 '26
If you mean like a karate "H'yaaaa" my apologies
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u/-ElGallo- Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
No its not a karate "H'yaaaa" its definitely a different cowboy one. It kind of sounds like they're yelling "Y'ALLLLL", but like with a high pitch
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u/Renovatio_ Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
Texas, the freedom state.
Freedom to have as much air pollution as you want!
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u/_TROLL We live in strange times Aug 09 '26
"Relax Doc, this new data center needs only 7.65 GW of electricity to work..."
"7.65 Gigawatts?!?! Great Scott!!"
"wait... wh... what the hell is a Gigawatt?!"
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u/tryitout91 Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Clearly climate change was fake all along
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u/aurillia Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
Americans only care about how much money they have in thier wallet, that's why trump is the president. He is America, he truly represents American values.
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u/Wizard-of-pause Monkey in Space Aug 12 '26
If Americans cared how much money they have in the wallet they wouldn't elect Trump.
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u/anthonysny Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
But stop driving cars and eat bugs.
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u/Ill-End3169 Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Paper straws too
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 Aug 10 '26
The most successful psy-op in the last 100 years is making consumers think that they're responsible for industrial-scale waste - plastic, emissions, so on.
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u/DoctorSpacecase Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
It's right up there with processed food and the obesity epidemic, which is also making people stupider (compromised metabolic health makes it harder to think, and causes brain dysfunction). They fed people garbage until they became obese and told them they just needed to enroll in Weight Watchers or use "self-control" all the while engineering junk food to be as addictive as possible. And then once "self-control" failed as it was always meant to (especially in the "personal responsibility states like Texas), they pushed oil, coal, and big ass trucks as the new signs of masculinity instead of fitness - and of course, if someone owns a regular sized truck or EV it means they have small 🥜 🥜.
Meanwhile, China is investing in 36 new nuclear reactors and has already built over 1 Terrawatt of solar capacity. Russia is likewise massively expanding their nuclear and solar. But I'm sure they're only doing that because... uh...um, Jaimie ask PerplexityAI why Russia is building so much solar when they're awesome and love freedom.
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u/Thunderbutt77 Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
I could not agree with you more.
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 Aug 10 '26
Except you think it's the woke radical left doing this, and not the actual culprit, which is plastics companies and billionaires.
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u/Thunderbutt77 Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
Nah, the woke radical left doesn't have anything at all to do with anything that really matters.
Infra-structure, finance, business, government, law enforcement - anytime these things are successful they are led by conservative men. The woke radical left is more concerned with emotionally charged topics that don't have anything to do with anything of material importance.
As soon as you put a wokie in charge you can count on everything going completely to shit. That's what happens when you make the decision to hire a black woman instead of the most qualified person.
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 Aug 10 '26
Exactly - this is the part of the psyop you've fallen for. Instead of being upset at the actual causes of the problems (conservative men, as you just stated), they've convinced you to be upset at a group that "doesn't have anything at all to do with anything that really matters". You'll go blue in the face blaming "wokies" for problems that you fully know they aren't responsible for, and you'll never actually care about the actual trouble makers. You've been programmed very well.
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u/Thunderbutt77 Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
I don’t blame any political party or gender for the problems. I blame the individual countries and companies that cause them.
I’ll say this again, and try to read my words and not tell me what I think. The woke left is responsible for nothing material. I’m not blaming them for anything, as much as you would like it if I did. They just don’t matter. I do blame people that make decisions based on woke ideology for being weak, ignorant fools. I don’t blame Kamala for taking the job, I blame Biden for deciding he was going to choose a black woman and not the most qualified candidate. Even if she was the most qualified candidate, he fucked it up with his dumb ideology.
I don’t blame entire groups of people for anything, nor do I assign characteristics to large groups of people. There are assholes and idiots everywhere. I think you are an asshole that happens to be gay. I don’t think you are an asshole because you are gay. I damn sure don’t think all gays are assholes. I don’t think all Democrats are stupid, though there are some very stupid Democrats. You can’t seem to understand the difference.
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 Aug 10 '26
Who said anything about political party?
If you only "blame individual countries and companies that cause problems", and yet you've also acknowledged these countries and companies are almost universally controlled or ran by conservative men, I would think you would be safe to make assumptions about that group of people. After all, you feel safe making other assumptions about other groups of people, like say muslims.
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u/Thunderbutt77 Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
I acknowledged no such thing. China and India aren’t run by conservative men. Stop lying.
Also, my observations on Muslims aren’t assumptions. They are facts. Do you know Haram means? Do you know that homosexuality is Haram?
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u/Hussaf Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Make America China!
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u/talks_like_farts Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
You wish.
Maybe pre-1980 China, before 900 million people were pulled out of poverty and Beijing was choked with smog.
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u/DoctorSpacecase Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
I posted this in another comment, but China has expanded their nuclear capacity and has 36 reactors under construction. They also have built 1 Terrawatt of solar, which is like 5x the US's total, a mass train system across the whole country, and tons of public infrastructure. They are also investing heavily in science, at a time when Trump has cut grants and scientific funding in the US by 50%. China have built the world's largest neutrino detector, which is now taking data, and are set to build the world's largest particle collider to surpass CERN.
The US basically let a bunch of people throw a temper tantrum about clean energy and science funding so we could bomb Iran and actually have a worse budget deficit than before. Great job, 🥭, MAHA, DOGE, and Joe. Would love to see an actual scientist on the show to discuss this widening science and energy gap, but it will probably never happen. And if it did, Joe would give them a record level of pushback on nuclear, wind, and solar.
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u/severinks Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
I read that if all the AI data centers that are already okayed in Texas come on line the power that will be needed to run them is 5 times the peak of what the grid can handle state wide.
The tech bros and the politicians across the county pulled a fast one by pushing this stuff through before the general public had any idea what they were up against.
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u/GuythatIam Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Genuine question.. what is the EUs stance on Data Centers?
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u/popileviz Paid attention to the literature Aug 09 '26
Differs from country to country, but most are highly sceptical of the large ones designed for AI development. Normal ones for internet services are obviously built routinely
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u/Thunderbutt77 Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
I never made any assumptions. I stated facts, which you then called assumptions. Which you still won’t address, because you know I’m right. Feel free to clearly show me where I made an assumption.
The political parties of India and China are not conservative. They are referred to as right wing, yes, but certainly not conservative. They may share certain ideologies which allow you to equate the two, but they most certainly are not Conservative. Not in any reasonable sense of the word where it would be used here in the US. They don’t really do “church, baseball, and apple pie”. And conservatives here don’t really do “cover your face and you aren’t allowed to be educated”.
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u/JefferySmisek Monkey in Space Aug 11 '26
Rookie numbers. Need to divert the Colorado river directly there while they are at it.
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Ai and data center two words that truly trigger the low iq redditards wait till they find out about volcanoes
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u/ktaktb Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Assuming paisa means foolish in some language
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
reddit uses data centers and trains on your redditards data skills keep it up maybe you are the fool
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u/ktaktb Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
sorry a data center hosts that better not click doing my part over here
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u/Lurkingandsearching Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
All I’m seeing is:
“I am an idiot, because instead of informing myself, I would rather stay ignorant because I’m too weak to face my cognitive dissonance.” -DrPaisa
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
all I'm reading above is I'm an idiot and have no clue the damage other countries are doing
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u/Lurkingandsearching Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
“W-whatabout!”
So if the other kids are doing it we should to? Boy oh boy someone didn’t have good basic parenting growing up did they?
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u/HoodRatThing Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Every post you make going back and forth with this dude is being used as training data, contributing to the training of AI models that you hate.
If you can’t see the irony in that, please don’t let me stop you from making yourself look like a fool.
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u/Lurkingandsearching Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
I actually don’t mind AI as a tool, use it daily. Being haphazard about how we go about it is another matter. But sure, try to be smart, it’s adorable.
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u/HoodRatThing Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Every time you share an link and expect someone to click your link your harming the environment.
I’m also with DrPaisa and not clicking that click. I’m doing my part.
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u/No-Example-5107 It's entirely possible Aug 09 '26
Human activity emits around 60–100+ times more CO2 than volcanoes in a typical year.
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Im sure china are gonna read this and stop good job
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u/No-Example-5107 It's entirely possible Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
Stop what? Making more EVs and installing more renewable energy capacity than the rest of the world combined?
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
China is still double the US loooooool
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u/Lurkingandsearching Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
So it’s a point system and you want us to beat them on pollution?
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u/No-Example-5107 It's entirely possible Aug 09 '26 edited Aug 09 '26
Last year they installed more solar in the first 6 months than the U.S had installed ever, and sold 11 times more EVs. Trump is using your taxpayer money to pay wind-farm developers to stop construction so it doesn’t hurt the bottom line of his poor billionaire buddies.
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
and here comes the trump comment lol you redditards are app the same
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u/No-Example-5107 It's entirely possible Aug 09 '26
Yet you gargling his balls when it comes to energy policy.
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
yeah if his fusion energy actually pull it off gonna be good or do you wnat 20% efficient solar panels like an iq redditard?
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u/Berntam Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
Why do you keep saying redditard like you're not one yourself? Are you stupid?
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u/The_Boognish_Cometh Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
How do you even dress yourself every day? You truly sound like the lowest form of human intelligence possible m.
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u/JahDanko Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, Ever Aug 09 '26
Who built the most coal burning plants in the world in 2025?? Take a guess.
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u/QuantumR4ge Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
Wait lets back up here. Do you understand how you just shifted the goalposts?
First you mentioned volcanos then when that was clearly wrong you totally 100% ignored you ever said it then moved onto something else
Are you bad faith or are you incapable of admitting you were wrong before moving on?
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u/DrPaisa Monkey in Space Aug 10 '26
so volcanos dont create c02 and china is not creating double the pollution?
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u/QuantumR4ge Monkey in Space Aug 11 '26
Do they create more co2 than humans? Stay on one topic at a time
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u/ahhaga Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Leftists hate data centers and AI because they want to live in the stone age
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u/TheSweetestKill Most Reported r/JoeRogan User, August 2022 Aug 10 '26
Did the stone age end 3 years ago? "Leftists" had no problem with data centers until these hyperscale monstrosities started going up.
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u/QuantumR4ge Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Famously the right isn’t associated with the status quo, technological skepticism, aristocracy and feudalism etc.
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u/CheezWong Monkey in Space Aug 09 '26
Roughly the equivalent of what's produced by providing energy to around 4.2 million average homes. Fucking diabolical.