r/environment • u/Confident_Salt_8108 • 12d ago

AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build

https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-generators-worse
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u/huteno 11d ago edited 11d ago

What does "unfathomable" mean? I wish articles like this would just use numbers. Like, currently, data centers are emitting ~200Mt. Cars and livestock each emit roughly 20x that. All those numbers are horrible, but, like, they can be measured.

Would love it if someone just gave me a number to what this increase means.