Comment on Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Can we just cancel the whole “ai” thing? It was fun for a bit, now it’s just problems.
Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world 3 months ago
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
The AI meme will crash eventually. When? Can’t say. But eventually they’ll move on to the next meme.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m sure they’ll find something even more problematic to dump money into sooner or later.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
I think it’s fair to say AI meme since there definitely is a meme component to it, but at the same time I think it’s worth pointing out it’s also not nearly entirely useless either like Web3.0/Blockchain/etc essentially was. There are a lot of cool and new things that are possible with “AI” that just weren’t possible before, there is some utility to it. It is impressive to me and I’m a senior developer, so I don’t necessarily get impressed as super easily as a layperson might.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 3 months ago
More AI you say? Can do!
tal@lemmy.today 3 months ago
This isn’t AI, but datacenters in general. EU stuff tends to accumulate in Ireland.
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Of course it’s not only ai, but the article’s subhead: “Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets”