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Are Google's, Meta's, Tencent's or Alibaba's AI workloads more environmentally friendly, or what am I missing from this point? And AI's are destructive for the
by FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Are Google's, Meta's, Tencent's or Alibaba's AI workloads more environmentally friendly, or what am I missing from this point?
And AI's are destructive for the environment why? Is it more environmentally friendly to waste a lot more human time with less compute power doing mundane repetitive shit for hours that an AI/LLM can summarize or answer in seconds?
With that logic it's also more environmentally friendly to use an ox to plow the fields instead of a diesel John Deer.
- crimbles 3y agoNo they are just as bad.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoThen why single out Microsoft? And you haven't explained why are they bad.
- rpy 3y agoThis thread is about Microsoft, it’s pointing out their hypocrisy feigning concern about the environmental footprint of their cloud infrastructure.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoStill no answer on why AIs are bad for the environment compared to not using AIs.
- croes 3y agohttps://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoVery interesting, thanks for sharing.