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Apologies, I didn’t post the link, it’s edited now.

If you want to take issue with all energy usage that’s fine, its a position to take. But it’s quite a fringe one given that harnessing energy is what gives us the quality of life we have. Thankfully electricity is one of the easiest forms of energy to decarbonise and is already happening rapidly with solar and wind power, we need to transition more of our energy usage to it in order to reduce fossil fuel usage. My main point is that this railing against AI energy usage is akin to the whole plastic straw ban, mostly performative and distracting from the places where truely vast amounts of fossil fuels are burnt that need to be tackled urgently.

You can say “people shouldn’t build data centres in those locations,” but they are. And the world doesn’t run on “shouldn’t.”

I’m 100% behind forcing data centre’s to use sustainable water sources or other methods of cooling. But that is a far cry from AI energy consumption being a major threat, the vast majority of data centre usage isn’t AI anyway, it’s serving websites like the one we are talking on right now.

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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Apologies, I didn’t post the link, it’s edited now.

Yes, and it’s paywalled, so I can’t read it. I think you knew that. It could say anything.

I’m 100% behind forcing data centre’s to use sustainable water sources or other methods of cooling.

Cool, good luck with that happening.

But that is a far cry from AI energy consumption being a major threat,

A different subject from water. You keep trying to get away from the water issue. I also think you know why you’re doing that.

Also, define threat. It contributes to climate change. It gets rid of potable water. I’d call that a threat.

By the way, there is nowhere in the U.S. where water is not going to be a problem soon.

geographical.co.uk/…/us-groundwater-reserves-bein…

But hey, we can just move the servers to the ocean, right? Or maybe outer space! It’s cold!

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- Womble@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Ok, you just want to shout not discuss so I wont engage any further.
  
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  - FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    That’s a nice cop-out there since nothing I said could remotely be considered shouting.
    
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rekorse@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Why can’t we analyze AI on its own merits? We dont base our decisions on whether an idea is more or less polluting than automobiles. We can look at what we are getting for what’s being put into it.

The big tech companies could scrap their AI tech today and it wouldnt change most peoples lives.

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