Comment on AI Laundromat????

• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Then why are they asking people to stop having showers in cities to power the AI?

  Because those communities have not structured their laws/regulations/bylaws to properly capture the true cost of utilities to its consumers and price it accordingly. Users should have fairly low rates up to a certain point, and then higher rates for higher consumption. The higher the consumption should cost exponentially more. Think of “gas guzzler” taxes on inefficient cars. Up to now these water utilities probably haven’t needed to make these changes.

  If the water utilities price it appropriately high for the data center provider one of two things will happen:

  • the data center provider will not build there and go elsewhere
  • the data center provider will switch to a “closed loop” system so they don’t have to use so much water.

  The reason DCs don’t do that second one by default is because “open loop” (extremely water hungry) is significantly cheaper to operate.

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  • Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How are we going to deal with the 1000’s of people who end up utter brain dead meat bags because they are no longer using their brains?

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    • Sc00ter@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The same way society has any time we have a technological advancement that has negative consequences but makes a profit. We ignore it until its either too late or becomes too big of a problem to tackle.

      A few that come to mind are things like asbestos, lead based products, pollution, CO2 emissions… and thats without stopping to think of a list

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    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I agree. This will be a problem. However very few people will care about this question when they’re faced with two products/services that are nearly equivalent, but the human derived one costs significantly more.

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      • Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yup and humanity slides even further into the abyss.

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