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As electricity demand from data centers soars, Meta and Google are looking at a novel solution: harnessing clean heat far below Earth’s surface.
(www.nytimes.com)
This article was almost surely placed because it came out that the tech firms were using accounting techniques to obscure their impact:
this is one i dont understand. if we down drill far enough anywhere , we get free heat. nuke plants cost billions... we cant drill a few miles for billions of dollars? what am i missing?
The thing I heard is that geothermal energy is actually only renewable on geological timescales, i.e. not really "renewable". It's just that there are very large reserves, so it's not immediately obvious. But I can't find a link rn.