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minus-squareJankatarch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·19 hours agoTexas has just asked residents to take less showers while datacenters made specifically for LLM training continue operating. This is more like feeling bad for not using a paper straw while local factory dumps all their oil change into the community river.
minus-squareAnonomousWolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·edit-24 hours agoMaybe they should cut down on Beef first, it uses exponentially more water than AI and CO2 1 kg Beef = 60kg CO2 - source 1000km Return flight = 314kg CO2 - source 1 Bitcoin transaction = 645kg of CO2 - source 1000 AI prompts = 3kg of CO2 - source
Texas has just asked residents to take less showers while datacenters made specifically for LLM training continue operating.
This is more like feeling bad for not using a paper straw while local factory dumps all their oil change into the community river.
Maybe they should cut down on Beef first, it uses exponentially more water than AI and CO2