They’ll need to start consuming all that extra electricity to power LLMs to analyze climate change data🤔
Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months agoYeah, Google aint carbon neutral. That’s greenwashing. Good question though about the carbon emissions. I don’t have any data to draw on, but it would be some kind of function of how many PCs/server racks are responsible for processing the data.
redfox@infosec.pub 8 months ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Soon they’ll be selling methane credits to the oil companies.
hedgehog@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
Carbon credits should instead be a tax - one that every major corporation has to pay based off their carbon emissions, and the funds should be used exclusively to fund renewable energy sources, renewable goods manufacturing, and to repair the damage done by traditional fuels.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Money being fungible, its all functionally the same. But our business-friendly government officials tend to be stingy with taxes and generous with credits. So its politically more expedient for the legislature to offer large bounties on plugged pipes than to pass a large penalty on unplugged ones.
That’s because of a little thing called “kickbacks” which keep the whole engine of publicly funded commerce running. My carbon capture credit becomes your campaign donation becomes next years “My rival punched a baby” screamer news ad plus hush money for the mom of the baby I punched six months ago.