I hope you're trolling.
Power can be generated without an environmental impact. There are companies (and F150s) dumping kgbjillions more CO2 than this person's homelab is. Let people learn something and have some fun.
Power cannot be generated without an environmental impact. Even solar panel and wind turbine generate a non negligible amount of pollution when produced, and a non negligible amount of waste when they have to be decommissioned.
Also, it is highly unlikely that he is using his own grid, he probably pulling most of his power from the U.S grid, which (like most grid to be fair) contains a fair amount of CO2 heavy sources.
And that is not even talking about the amount of pollution and waste used to produced all that hardware he is running.
I get it, it looks cool and damn fun. I dream of this kinds of setup. but brushing off the environmental impact is also wrong.
Now admittedly, he is but a drop in vast ocean when it come to pollution and waste, and there is definitely far worse offender. But keeping our environmental impact in mind should be a necessity in this era.
There, it's in mind; what can we do now to stop the big companies from making things worse?
Individual accountability is important, but self-flagellation or (vicarious) shame because forces bigger than us are causing problems is a waste of energy (ha!).
Big companies don't produce pollution in a vacuum. Almost all of their pollution is a indirect consequence of our own consumption. Buying a ford F-150 and having a oversized server rack full of expensive hardware that generate a lot of pollution to be produces is a sure way not to stop big companies.
Responsible consumption is the first important step to stop big companies from making thing worse.
This is the argument that holds the most weight with me. It's why, as much as I approve of Extinction Rebellion and their kin, I think it's counterproductive to deflate SUV tires, when the environment harm caused by SUVs is a fraction of that caused by the companies profiting off oil and gas extraction and refining. If you're gonna do a crime anyway...
It's similar to when there's hypocrisy charges levied against "champagne socialists." Nice virtue signalling for worker's rights for someone with a 6 figure income... meanwhile that 6 figure salary accounts for 0.01% the net worth of a billionaire.
Go for the high stakes first, then we can worry about homelabs pulling more power than they should.
