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The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pollution-ai-data-centers-severe
Yep. Also look at animal agriculture which we also do not need and is a huuuuuge amount crueller and orders of magnitude more polluting. Get rid of both and we’d be like a quarter of the way to fixing our emissions
Also look at animal agriculture which we also do not need
I can eat steak. I cannot eat AI.
And the meat industry is based on subsidies and infrastructure that goes back what, decades?
If there’s anything that produces carbon that’s “inevitable” and “never going away”, the meat industry is a far better candidate than AI, but I only ever hear arguments about the latter from the AI boosters.
(Hopefully it goes without saying but this is not a defense of keeping meat around, which is not something that can be said when you hear an AI inevitabilist say their cliche)