vegeta@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoElon Musk's xAI plans to build 'Gigafactory of Compute' by fall 2025 — using 100,000 Nvidia's H100 GPUswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down10
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minus-squaresmnwcj@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoWe really need to tax energy used by GPU-burning projects differently. AI training, blockchain, whatever. Such a wasteful endeavour.
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoNo significant blockchains use GPUs any more. As for AI training, that produces AIs. It’s not wasteful.
minus-squareslurpyslop@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months ago As for AI training, that produces AIs. It’s not wasteful. 👀
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months agoI use AIs for a variety of productive purposes. You may not, and that’s fine, but that’s just you. You can’t dismiss anything that you personally don’t have a use for as “wasteful.”
minus-squareKalkaline @leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoCarbon tax, it was proposed so many years ago and it’s always been a good idea.
minus-squareSlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoBy now it should be a hard carbon budget and not a simple tax that can be dodged.
We really need to tax energy used by GPU-burning projects differently. AI training, blockchain, whatever. Such a wasteful endeavour.
No significant blockchains use GPUs any more. As for AI training, that produces AIs. It’s not wasteful.
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I use AIs for a variety of productive purposes. You may not, and that’s fine, but that’s just you. You can’t dismiss anything that you personally don’t have a use for as “wasteful.”
people still use nfts
Carbon tax, it was proposed so many years ago and it’s always been a good idea.
By now it should be a hard carbon budget and not a simple tax that can be dodged.