Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
The New York Times
At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.
@kkarhan@infosec.space
"#AI" is such a level of "#WastefulComputing" that it makes #CryptocurrencyMining look like an act of #EnergyConservation and #EnvoirmentalProtection by comparison.
- After all, #Shitcoins like #Bitcoin & #Ethereum too are using expensive manufactured #eWaste in the form of #ASIC|s, and like all those "#AiAccelerators" they are useless beyond being the most sophisticated & expensive space heaters by BTU.
Not that it doesn't make #Shitcoin-#Mining any less unethical and wrong!
I can expand on this further.
- AI is wasteful compared to Crypto
- Crypto is wasteful compared to search engines
- Search engines are wasteful compared to wikis
Its a pattern now.
Its as if we should not just write down questions and get them answered and instead think for ourselves. In the past we looked up stuff in a phone book, in a dictionary, etc.
I wont go into the critical thinking capability of western people but suffice it to say its not looking good.
