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Re:The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas tha... by bjourne on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:02PM (#50215286)
First link: "With the ambition to phase out its coal-fired plant by 2025, Denmark’s third largest district heating company, Fjernvarme Fyn, has established Denmark’s biggest heat pump plant. The plant will recover 215,000 MWh of energy from Meta’s hyperscale Tietgenbyen data centre and redistribute the surplus heat to the district heating network of the city of Odense."

"Will" means "in the future".

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Re:The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas tha... by Symbiote on Saturday October 24, 2026 @02:16AM (#50218739)
Other parts are in the present tense. It's probably written by a Danish speaker.

But you can do your own searching, you seen determined that this doesn't exist.

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Re:The same AI request emits 8.5 times more CO2 in Texas tha... by ttkari on Saturday October 24, 2026 @07:17AM (#50220192)
As it clearly says on the page, this project was completed in 2019. The commercial use began in early 2020.

Even in the very sentence you quoted they are writing about plans to retire a coal plant by 2025 in future tense. This should be a very obvious hint that the text was written some time ago - unless, of course, the reader is not aware of what year we currently are living in.

In 2024, Fjernvarme Fyn reported ([1], page 19) they were recovering enough heat from that very site to heat almost 7000 homes in Odense and that the number can still rise significantly as the data center expands.

[1] https://stateofgreen.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SoG_W...

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