Europe needs access to affordable, clean energy.

[laurielle@mastodon.art]

@EUCommission First energy-saving measure should be getting rid of useless AI datacenters. We can't seriously ask people to worry about saving energy while at the same time we allow big tech to evaporate all our water to make slop.

[christof@fedihum.org]

@EUCommission

Nuclear is out then, as well, because it is neither clean nor affordable (nor safe).

[jsamcfarlane@mastodon.ie]

@EUCommission this is undermined by the fact that tech companies can successfully lobby to hide the real cost of their datacentres.

> US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

US tech firms successfully lobbied EU to keep datacentre emissions secret

Legally questionable confidentiality clause adopted almost word for word from demands of Microsoft and trade groups

the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

[maeserichar@neopaquita.es]

@EUCommission a free tip to reduce energy consumption: stop with all that LLM non-sense

[swirly@donotsta.re]

@EUCommission
i'd rather have you not post an image at all than generate one with the plagiarism machine. the top of the left switch is off-center and the left switch is at an angle while the right switch is facing directly toward the camera.
don't use genai for your images, please. this is _not_ the future, just a dystopia that will leave us all in the dust soon. nobody wants this.

[drajt@fosstodon.org]

@christof @EUCommission someone better tell Macron as the French government is obsessed with nuclear plants. They are pressing ahead with SMRs after their ERP plans ran billions over budget and are over a decade late...

And EDF the state owned electricity company hates solar and wind, in fact anything that detracts from their nuclear fleet...

[rorose@mastodon.social]

@EUCommission Remind me whether you think gas is fossil or clean. The signals have been mixed.

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@teknomagic @EUCommission If only it were just expensive.
AI is so resource and energy intensive.

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@christof @EUCommission Well, the danger factor is valid only in the "if" scenario as there has been more serious incidents in regards to fossil fuel.

The more unfortunate thing about this (apart from the cost and the fact that we have no way of dealing with Nuclear waste) is that we'd need to get Uranium from Russia.

[the_universality@mastodon.novotnykrystof.com]

@EUCommission Hopefully there will be investments to geothermal power-plants.

[hug@freiburg.social]

Hey @EUCommission
Do you remember the "Green Deal"? 🧐 Please ask Ursula von der Leyen and Katharina Reiche about its current status?

[ericgeneric@norden.social]

@EUCommission dann lauft mal los und fangt die #CDU wieder ein. Die würden am liebsten das Land unter die ungarische Pipeline legen und reinlaufen lassen…