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reddig33@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I agree with you. Most energy comes from renewables these days, and your wi-fi usage is a negligible amount in the scale of things. How about going after corporate energy waste like AI instead?
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 days ago
AI is negligible compared to Coal & private jets etc. Or just gross spending by billionaires
scratchee@feddit.uk 5 days ago
It currently is negligible. Depending on how long this hype train lasts it may stop being negligible. Coal is on the decline. Private jets and careless billionaires are growing problems, but not as fast as ai. All need handling one way or another.
Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 5 days ago
I'm anti-ai for privacy, copyright reasons etc.
But the environmental impact is negligible, streaming Netflix uses way more resources than thousands of AI prompts (including training)
If we watched less YouTube it would make a much bigger difference than if we didn't use AI
scratchee@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Fair point, after some googling I see I was significantly overestimating ais impact despite your comment previous comment, my bad.
shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Do you have a source for the streaming v AI power consumption thing? I don’t want to be an ass, just genuinely curious. When I run jellyfin and stream something from my home server, it draws 35 watts. If I run an ai model on my GPU, it draws way more than that.
the_q@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Weird take…