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DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI
(www.pcworld.com)
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this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2026
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Well, I don't know about that.
My swiss hoster just started offering AI and says that their AI infrastructure is 100 % powered by renewables and the waste heat is used for district heating.
You could argue that LLM training in itself used so much energy that you'll never be able to compensate for the damage, but I don't know. 🤷
While good, you should always keep in mind that using renewables for this means that power can't be used for other purposes, meaning the difference has to be covered by other sources of energy. Always bear in mind that these things don't exist in a vaccum. The resources they use always mean resources aren't used elsewhere. At worst this would mean that new clean power is built to power a waste, and then old dirty power has to be used for everything else, instead of being replaced by clean energy.
That's actually a very good point, thanks!
Yeah that reminds me of the data centres hogging green energy that was meant for households
Infomaniak?
Yes. :)
Do you believe them? Why?
It fits their business structure and values and of course there's a good portion good faith on my end because I didn't check first hand.
Corps don't have values.
Corps are run by people and people can run them with values. Our capitalist system encourages acting without values but it is not impossible to do so