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We are quite literally baking the planet. First with Bitcoin mining now with AI data centers. I pray that at least the AI datacenters will be allowed to be put
by jongjong 1y ago
We are quite literally baking the planet. First with Bitcoin mining now with AI data centers. I pray that at least the AI datacenters will be allowed to be put to good use instead of BS jobs.
- Gigachad 1y agoWe are going to bake the planet for AI Stephen Hawking videos and Twitter politics bots.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoAi will take over our jobs which makes it so we can’t afford ai which causes ai companies to go belly up which causes the economy to implode thereby saving the planet.
- z3c0 1y ago..."first with Bitcoin"? Is that the narrative we're buying now? That this problem starts at Bitcoin? Not the coal-fired electrical grid fueling it?
- kibwen 1y agoAny proof-of-work cryptocurrency is literally a system that incentivizes runaway, self-reinforcing energy consumption like no other product in human history. Bringing it into the world is the dumbest idea that any human has ever had. I hope Satoshi is ashamed of his mental lapse.
- lozenge 1y agoDon't worry about it, as one very famous and respected climate change economist once calculated, farming only comes to 3% of global GDP.
- mensetmanusman 1y agoCoal powered steel mills and aluminum refining are orders of magnitude more impactful.