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  "title": "data-centers on Solar Noon",
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        "id": "http://solarnoon.micro.blog/2026/04/15/datacenters-arent-a-reason-to.html",
        "title": "Data-centers aren't a reason to use more fossil fuels",
        "content_html": "<p>There are lots of good arguments in this Canary Media editorial by Amory Lovins and Justin Locke: <a href=\"https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/data-centers/ai-does-not-compute\">AI: Does not compute</a>. The dirty, expensive, and failing fossil fuel industry are more than happy to ride the panic-driven AI bubble to energy expansion, building out new plants as fast as they can. But that&rsquo;s a terrible idea, and we shouldn&rsquo;t allow it. If you want more power in 2026, it has to be clean power. That&rsquo;s not even an obstacle! It&rsquo;s the smarter, cheaper, faster way to do it.</p>\n<p>As Lovins and Locke put it:</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Renewables also offer essential speed. In Sparks, Nevada, the world’s largest solar-powered microgrid continuously powers modular data centers. Solar panels laid on desert ground feed hundreds of second-life electric-vehicle batteries joined to form a superbattery. It was all built in four months and delivers electricity that’s cheaper, quieter, and more reliable than grid power; uses virtually no water; emits nothing; and is even portable. This is what clean, scalable, market-speed power looks like. Gas isn’t it.</p>\n</blockquote>\n",
        "date_published": "2026-04-15T08:44:29-05:00",
        "url": "https://solarnoon.net/2026/04/15/datacenters-arent-a-reason-to.html",
        "tags": ["fossil fools","data-centers"]
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