Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel.

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• gens@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Water has to be cleaned. It is renewable, not free. My city has many sources, but most places where they build datacenters do not. It is a real problem

  Either way the biggest proble, IMO, is the pressure on the electric grid. If the asshats building the centers would cooperate with others, there would be much less problems.

  As for power usage, yea its a lot but still not an insane amount. The image and video generation uses a LOT more then text.

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  • very_well_lost@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is renewable, not free.

    “Renewable” also doesn’t mean shit if the resource is being consumed faster than it’s being renewed. Ask the people who used to live on the shores of the Aral Sea how “renewable” their water was.

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  • Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    image gen isn't so heavy either, but even i who arguments against this "AI is killing the environment"-bullshit agree on the video gen - there is a lot of power usage behind that one. might still not be an issue if using renewables, but if you use elon's illegally gas turbine powered AI, then it's fucking bad.

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• Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Surely you understand clean FRESH water is a limited resource. Renewable sure, but LIMITED.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They don’t need fresh water, nor do they dirty it.

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    • Reygle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Are you suggesting they’re cooling data centers with seawater

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