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>remember guys, cut your beef consumption, drive less and have fewer foreign holidays (preferably none) >this will allow the hyperscalers to build more DCs [..
by gruez 1y ago
>remember guys, cut your beef consumption, drive less and have fewer foreign holidays (preferably none)
>this will allow the hyperscalers to build more DCs [...]
This juxtaposition makes zero sense because the datacenters are getting built regardless of whether people are eating beef or not. By and large, there's no global cap on carbon, so everyone is free to emit whatever they want, and someone eating less beef isn't allowing amazon to train more AI models or vice versa.
- melling 1y agoIt’s sarcasm. Poe’s Law? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
- gruez 1y agoMaybe OP doesn't literally think amazon had to convince some people to not eat beef to get the datacenter built, but it's pretty obvious that the underlying sentiment of "we're making sacrifices so amazon can build a datacenter" is sincere. But that doesn't make much sense either, because the two things (ie. guy eating beef, amazon build datacenter) is totally unrelated. Doing one isn't enabling or preventing the other.
- melling 1y agoI have no idea how many times it has been explained that the “self-sacrifice “ method isn’t going to make a difference. People who don’t understand the scale of the problem came up with that.