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Energy consumption and CO2 emission it causes is a pretty big lose
by croes 2mo ago
Energy consumption and CO2 emission it causes is a pretty big lose
- compiler-devel 2mo agoThis argument, while totally valid, will never halt the build out of data centers nor hamper the development of AI.
- SXX 2mo agoThat CO2 will be emitted either way. We can choose though what % goes to funny cat videos and porn or useful open source code.
- croes 2mo agoThey build new data centers -> extra CO2 They build new power plants -> extra CO2 They built non-climate neutral power plants to power the data centers -> extra CO2 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223845 It’s not like we had some already produced spare energy lying around. Consumption went up, production went up, often it’s conventional production with CO2 There is a reason Google and MS scrapped their CO2 goals
- yellowapple 2mo agoRun it with a self-hosted model on a gaming PC running off a solar panel and UPS.