Alternatively, shutting down the entire internet (which is what removing datacentres is) for the sake of growing 0.1% more almonds in California is not a good trade off IMO.
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andyburke@fedia.io 5 weeks agoWe shouldn't be growing almonds in a desert and yet you hold that up as a defense for AI.
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Womble@piefed.world 5 weeks ago
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Attacking data centers over water use when it is utterly dwarfed by the almond and dairy industries is weird priorities to me.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
we need food. we don’t need ai
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
We don’t need those foods specifically, when they are vastly more wasteful.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
you don’t know what anyone else needs.