Google and Microsoft recently admitted their emissions are soaring as they build out data centers to power the AI boom.
But new analysis from The Guardian suggests the data center emissions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple are 662% higher than the companies reporting.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech
@parismarx Build them in Finland.
@parismarx Yes , but how high they are? 662% of nothing is still nothing. And 1-1.5% of global consumption is very close to "nothing".
@uriel @parismarx yep and data centre power comes from the same grid as all the other power so as the grid goes more renewable so do they
@ikt @parismarx Seems a charlatan here just reported me for doing basic math. Unfortunately for the charlatan, basic math is legal in Germany, and my instance policy allows everything which is legal to say in Germany.
Data centers use too much internet bandwidth, water, electricity, and financial investment dollars that could be better used elsewhere.
They are profligate hogs.
Why, despite ever increasing internet improvements, your wifi keeps dying...
Why your wells go dry...
https://news.lenovo.com/data-centers-worlds-ai-generators-water-usage/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/25/data-centers-drought-water-use/
Why your grid keeps having brownouts & your electricity utility bills balloon...
https://theconversation.com/ai-supercharges-data-center-energy-use-straining-the-grid-and-slowing-sustainability-efforts-232697
Why the Saudis, #KochNetwork, &...
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... & Wall Street don't fund clean energy initiatives...hijacking democracy & keeping the right to continue frying the planet comes 1st.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/19/business/saudi-arabia-investment-artificial-intelligence.html
The election interference possibilities of AI... know a group's thinking, know how to manipulate them...
https://www.newsweek.com/key-signs-republican-party-ai-chatgpt-1941714
@parismarx Man, fuck everything AI. We don't need this shit, nobody needs this shit and it's killing the earth.
@rustywhips @parismarx Don't worry, according to the accelerationists AI will magically solve all our ecological problems as soon as AGI/ASI happens.
@parismarx buying carbon offsets is a scam and the amount of offsets they would have had to buy was starting to be a financial problem. Their solution: be transparent and pretend it isn't a problem.
@parismarx OFC they do #EmissionsTrading because that shit got legalized instead of demanding true #decarbonization...
@parismarx I've said it before: we cannot afford AI. The tech industry willingly forgets that.
@parismarx they probably realize that if we're not going to do anything about China, we won't do anything to stop them either.
@parismarx it all comes down to physics. Even highly intelligent people want to hide their heads in the sand.
@parismarx "We'll be carbon neutral by 2025... unless it harms shareholder value"
@parismarx @EnidKapelsen “Data is the new oil” taken literally