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And how does that compare to farming almonds, alfalfa or the beef industry for your all American hamburger? Ah, so you're a vegan? Well compare it then to the water used to produce your foods, to manufacture the van that brings you the food and the extraction of the oil that powers it. Without context, stats about datacenter water usage are FUD bullshit. *billion people in subsaharan Africa lovely clickbait title who…
And how does that compare to farming almonds, alfalfa or the beef industry for your all American hamburger? Ah, so you're a vegan? Well compare it then to the water used to produce your foods, to manufacture the van that brings you the food and the extraction of the oil that powers it. Without context, stats about datacenter water usage are FUD bullshit. *billion people in subsaharan Africa lovely clickbait title who…
What a strange argument. People eat food to survive. Petaflops are not very tasty.
"The operation of AI will require 14,500 square kilometres of land" I'm always so confused by articles that try to scare you with big numbers. We have tons of land. Land is one of the few things we are not at all running out of, especially in the USA. The USA is 9,372,610 square kilometers. 1% of that is 93,000, so this is like 0.2% of the US? It's such a transparent scare tactic, and a clear sign the article isn't i…
Once you see that pattern, it's everywhere. There are vast swathes of people whose livelihoods rely on terrorizing anyone whose eyeballs graze past the words they have written.
The food in their children's mouths is paid for by the fear they inspire by finding the worst possible (but not technically false) interpretation of EVERY SINGLE THING ON THE PLANET.
I have my circle of influence. Inside of the circle, I will care. I will do what I can. I will recycle. I will turn the lights off when I leave the room. I will care for the world I find myself in to the extent my arms can reach it.
Outside of that? Not my circus, not my monkeys.