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• Barrymore@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But he isn’t speaking the truth. AI itself is a massive strain on the environment, without any true benefit. You are being fed hype and lies by con men. Data centers being built to supply AIs are using water and electricity at alarming rates, taking away the resources from actual people living nearby, and raising the cost of those utilities at the same time.

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  • Sl00k@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    This is valid to all data centers serving all websites. Your take is a criticism of unregulated capitalism, not AI.

    Beef farming is a far far far more impactful discussion, yet here we are.

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  • Draces@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And your car or flight is a massive strain on the environment. I think you’re missing the point. There’s a way to use tools responsibly. We’ve taken the chains off and that’s obviously a problem but the AI hate here is irrational

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  • Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Do you really think those data centers wouldn’t have been built if AI didn’t exist? Do you really think those municipalities would have turned down the same amount of money if it was for something else but equally destructive?

    What I’m hearing is you’re sick of municipal governance being in bed with big business. That you’re sick of big business being allowed to skirt environmental regulations.

    But sure. Keep screaming at AI. I’m sure the inanimate machine will feel really bad about it.

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AI uses 1/1000 the power of a microwave.

    Are you really sure you aren’t the one being fed lies by con men?

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    • AceTKen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Hi. I’m in charge of an IT company that is been contracted to carry out one of these data centers somewhat unwillingly in our city. We are currently in the groundbreaking phase but I am looking at papers and power requirements. You are absolutely wrong on the power requirements unless you mean per query on a light load on an easy plan, but these will be handling millions if not billions of queries per day. Keeping in mind that a single user query can also be dozens, hundreds, or thousands of separate queries… Generating a single image is dramatically more than you are stating.

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  • absentbird@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The problem is the companies building the data centers; they would be just as happy to waste the water and resources mining crypto or hosting cloud gaming, if not for AI it would be something else.

    In China they’re able to run DeepSeek without any water waste, because they cool the data centers with the ocean. DeepSeek also uses a fraction of the energy per query and is investing in solar and other renewables for energy.

    AI is certainly an environmental issue, but it’s only the most recent head of the big tech hydra.

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