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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)

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This article was almost surely placed because it came out that the tech firms were using accounting techniques to obscure their impact:

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They’re doing it in places with no oil to just get the heat.

There may be issues with what’s used for fracking granite, bit probably won’t be the issues with hydrocarbon leakage or waste injection

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