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[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The Spanish government is now petitioning its public for ideas on how to waste power.

[–] ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

time to start mining for crypto and running LLM AI servers.

[–] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 2 points 5 months ago

They should build the Matrix.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

They should have public fridges that are left open to help cool the planet.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Mine bitcoins. Or ditch capitalism. Wait, last one is opposite of wasting. Feed capitalism.

[–] SuddenDownpour@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Look. Bitcoins might be useless at a societal level. But if we're going to use excess renewable energy to drive out of business the crypto-miners who get their power from coal...