Also the knock off effects like computer parts quadrupling in price, the ecological damage, fucking over local power grids, and speed running propaganda.
I’ve seen billboards saying “many new datacenters are designed to reuse water” like… OK? that’s ONE aspect of it. you’re still installing natural gas turbines and diesel generators and taking enormous amounts of electricity…
Not to mention ‘many’ is vague and probably doesn’t apply to the one who paid for the billboard or it would say which one. It is like having a sign that says ‘many chefs wash their hands’.
Cool, but the one roght here is the most important one to me at this moment.
Oh wow, that’s so cool. Definitely worth the $2 trillion spent on AI so far.
Also the knock off effects like computer parts quadrupling in price, the ecological damage, fucking over local power grids, and speed running propaganda.
Don’t forget further entrenchment of state and corporate power over our lives!
I’ve seen billboards saying “many new datacenters are designed to reuse water” like… OK? that’s ONE aspect of it. you’re still installing natural gas turbines and diesel generators and taking enormous amounts of electricity…
“many”
Not to mention ‘many’ is vague and probably doesn’t apply to the one who paid for the billboard or it would say which one. It is like having a sign that says ‘many chefs wash their hands’.
Cool, but the one roght here is the most important one to me at this moment.
People never seem to understand that sometimes, the greenest thing you can do is NOTHING. Whodathunkit?