Your host Brandon Vigliarolo has been breathing in wildfire smoke from Canada for the past few days, which really has him thinking about whether all those AI datacenters building gas turbines and contributing to climate change is really worth it.
Luckily for us, CNBC technology and climate reporter Lora Kolodny, who just published a documentary on xAI's environmentally-damaging Colossus datacenters in Memphis, Tennessee, was available to chat with us as a special guest on this week's episode. Lora joins Brandon and El Reg editor-in-chief Matt Rossoff on this week's Kettle to chat about how datacenters are affecting the environment in this discussion, how they could be done right, and why they keep being done wrong.
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