The best part is the same people will use literally any type of AWS backed system and pretend its not just as bad for the environment.

The people at MIT know way more about this than either of us.

This isn’t simply the norm of a digital world. It’s unique to AI, and a marked departure from Big Tech’s electricity appetite in the recent past. From 2005 to 2017, the amount of electricity going to data centers remained quite flat thanks to increases in efficiency, despite the construction of armies of new data centers to serve the rise of cloud-based online services, from Facebook to Netflix. In 2017, AI began to change everything. Data centers started getting built with energy-intensive hardware designed for AI, which led them to double their electricity consumption by 2023. The latest reports show that 4.4% of all the energy in the US now goes toward data centers.

I am not okay with forever increasing the amount of non renewable energy we spend on a product that is 99% hype.

If you: - use amazon - use netflix - eat red meat - drive a gas powered vehicle of any kind - drive an electric vehicle that you dont charge via renewables - use an electric stove - Eat fast food

I realize I am a huge outlier here, but I haven’t done/owned any of those things for anywhere from years to decades, lmao. I logged nearly 1800 miles on public transit last year.

Go fix your own shit before judging others.

Oops, now what? How many carbon saving morality points do I need to accrue to point out that you clearly realize there is an environmental impact by defensively listing all the environmentally friendly things you do?

Turn the heat up on your shower and walk away from the AI, it’ll put you in a better mood.