> Since we should all be concerned about protecting our resources and thus the planet To my knowledge, most of the researchers and users of AI are using their

> Since we should all be concerned about protecting our resources and thus the planet To my knowledge, most of the researchers and users of AI are using their own resources, not "ours", so I'm not sure there's much to be worried about. > And by that I don't mean in the electricity bills of corporations. What else would it be accounted for in? The users of electricity are purchasing it from the producers, who in turn purchase equipment and services from vendors, etc. It's all a chain of specific transactions among specific parties all the way down. There's no point at which some fuzzy collection of arbitrarily aggregated people is involved as one of the parties. > As long as the big, well-known companies are in charge, the target figure towards which everything is optimised and maximised is commercial profit. And they make that profit by delivering value to their customers -- what's the problem there? > To cut a long story short, the only way to gain some ground here is through independent regulation, for example to get more transparency into this issue. What is "independent regulation"? Who is conducting it, what makes them "independent" and what is their incentive to be involved in the first place?