I feel it’s complicated - on one hand yes they are supposedly anti-fossil fuels and are saying to replace them with electrified alternatives - on the other the website has so many pro-AI articles that do have some anti-ff messaging but also an underlying “well it does suck but it’s unrealistic to power them with anything else so whacu gonna do”

Some data centers have invested in transmission and distribution networks, at times increasing their investment by over 35% to connect to the grid. Still, concerns about the energy deficit and the impacts of fossil fuels haven’t affected new investments, Rivera Cerecedo said.

“We aren’t seeing a slowdown in the industry,” she said. “The effort that companies developing data centers are making to stay in Mexico is big.”

and for a newspaper focused on “VCs sitting in Palo Alto to think twice when a proposal from Indonesia comes across their desk” the above does read like unvoiced support for whatever gets them their superintelligent AI dream.

Idk I’m just saying that this may not be pro-fossil fuels but its still definitely pro-capitlaism and industrial exploitation under the veneer of neo-liberal human rights concerns…

Actually fair enough - having read the whole article it does seem much more preoccupied with the dangers of nickel mining than the proven negative effects of fossil fuels and stuff like this is quite obvious pro-ff propaganda

It’s almost impossible to transition away from fossil fuels without nickel from Indonesia,” said Johnny Linghui Ni, a United Kingdom-based research analyst for Project Blue, a data provider on critical minerals. “And it may stay this way until at least 2030, if not longer.”

Still useful to learn about but compared to the landscape of positive oil rig articles this definitely doesn’t pass the smell test - thanks!

Ah yes the oil supporting Uproot Project of the Environmental Justice Fellowship…

Just because nickel mining is verifiably awful doesn’t mean oil rig work is any better. The point most serious environmental groups make is that we shouldn’t just replace fossil fuel based exploitation and environmental destruction with metal and rare earth ones instead.

We should focus on an overall reduction of consumption not just taking the over 1 billion cars and turning them electric but instead rethinking our whole relationship with nature.