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Well, this sucks :/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Environmental_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Envir...
by Philpax 5mo ago
Well, this sucks :/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Environmental_impact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Envir...
- thrownthatway 5mo agoWhy?
- chainwax 5mo agoI think he's referring to the fact that Colossus is powered by fossil fuels.
- xienze 5mo ago[flagged]
- thrownthatway 5mo ago[flagged]
- morgoths_bane 5mo agoHonestly if he was a Nazi that would be less worse than whatever the fuck he is.
- thrownthatway 5mo agoDid you also dance in the street when Charlie got shot in the neck?
- bigyabai 5mo agoSounds like projection to me, that's a non-sequitur.
- morgoths_bane 5mo agoNah but his wife did; well I guess that is not true, it was on a stage with pyrotechnics. Not even cold and his wife is making NYE look like a proper funeral, poor lad.
- nickthegreek 5mo agoI think some people saw that salutes, the reposts, the praise of Orban and might have reached that conclusion.
- davkan 5mo agoNazi feels like a close enough shorthand for “person who posts white nationalist and antisemitic views, supports authoritarian regimes, and seig heils on stage.”
- dzhiurgis 5mo agoOh so like this? https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/zohran-mamdani-faces-major-backlash-for-doing-nazi-salutes-in-a-row-during-nyc-mayoral-victory-speech-netizens-compare-it-to-elon-musk-s-2025-gesture/ar-AA1PTFGs https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/zohran-mamdani-faces-ma...
- davkan 5mo agoOh so we’re done talking about Elon then?
- thrownthatway 5mo ago[flagged]
- morgoths_bane 5mo agoIt may be more productive to ask what is right with burning fossil fuels for electricity right in the middle of marginalized communities that have to bear the cost of this pollution for AI slop.
- thrownthatway 5mo agoMarginalised communities. Righteo, I guess I better suspend my white privilege.
- formvoltron 5mo agoMaybe because nature put them in the ground for a reason? Minor risk that taking what took 200 million years to put into the ground out in a few hundred years?
- thrownthatway 5mo agoDo you believe in God?
- kfrzcode 5mo agoliterally the entire economy is powered by fossil fuels
- HarHarVeryFunny 5mo agoAs far as electricity goes, the US is currently 50/50 fossil fuels and renewables (solar, wind, etc).
- thrownthatway 5mo agoNo do the entire economy.
- quinncom 5mo agoOne of the reasons I refuse to use xAI’s models is because of the outsized negative environmental impacts of the methane gas turbines. Now I have to avoid Claude too.
- bottlepalm 5mo agoIf you can make up an inconsequential arbitrary rationalization to not use a service then I’m sure you can do the opposite to convince yourself to use it. That’s what virtue signaling is I guess - the action you’re taking is pointless, the only point is to tell everyone you’re taking it therefore feed the narrative forward? The entire economy runs off gas turbines though this is the thing you boycott?
- formvoltron 5mo agogas turbines generally are for peaking. Not for base load. Hopefully Elon lets you into his glass bubble when the s** cooks on the fan.
- data-ottawa 5mo agoSorry, what? Deciding not to spend money with a company you don't like is not pointless. The point is that you're not participating in something that you judge to be wrong. The world is full of things I feel are wrong yet have near zero power to stop. That does not mean I should willingly support those things.
- LeoPanthera 5mo ago[dead]
- quinncom 5mo agoObviously I’m virtue signaling, and I hope instilling a feeling of shame in people who support businesses that contribute to climate change. But more than that, the emissions generated by the Colossus data centers are far worse than typical combined-cycle gas plants or data centers that buy renewable: these turbines emit NOx, fine particulates, carbon monoxide, and formaldehyde into a population-dense area. I thought people knew about this already. Post from last year: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/xai-data-center/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/xai-data-center/