Great timing and phrasing. "Be slow about slop development ooor.. Burn everyone and everything!"
Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-choose-ai-climate-goals-data-center-chief-warns/
61 Comments
kokesh@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 61d
Clear answer for me - everything else wins over pointless "AI"
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 19 pts · 61d
Making collages out of human excrement wins over pointless "AI" for me.
kokesh@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 60d
Even tRump's?
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 60d
Yeah, especially if it's smeared on his face
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
Is... Is there a line or what
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 61d
Even the hyperloop?
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 12 pts · 61d
Anything that makes rich people look stupid and blow money is good, yes.
isles@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 60d
So you're proAI or what? 😉
ZDL@lazysoci.al · 7 pts · 60d
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Shit. You got me with that.
But I'm more pro-OceanGate.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 60d
I'm pretty sure "squish" is the exact opposite of "blow"
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
Wait fuck.
snooggums@piefed.world · 7 pts · 61d
Does not and will never exist, so it isn't "something" .
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · -1 pts · 61d
Yeah, but what if people suddenly started spending money on it? Would you prefer investment bankers threw billions into that sinkhole or AI?
snooggums@piefed.world · 5 pts · 61d
I would prefer they sunk money into nearly anything other than AI.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 60d
Yeah, but what if people suddenly started spending money on fucking Jurassic Park? What about ai then, huh?
Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 60d
Can't say I'm excited about any of these options. I think we need a movie about hyperloop failing catastrophically to make the comparison easier. There already are lots of movies about AI taking over the world and a handful of movies where dinosaur experiments go horribly wrong. Haven't seen anything about a hyperloop disasters.
Would be cool though. Imagine a hyperloop getting stuck under the pacific ocean. If you open the door, the vacuum will kill you. If you somehow manage that, you're still under a bezillion tonnes of water, so good luck with that. If you still somehow survive, and make it to the surface, you're still bezillion km away from shore. The protagonist of that movie is going to need some ridiculous amounts of plot armor, or we're going to roll the credits after 15 minutes.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
Hey I love the money hole. My father worked two jobs so he'd have money to dump in the money hole!
kokesh@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
Well, thought more of the better stuff like nature, not Musk's brainfarts
justsomeguy@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 61d
Easiest choice of my life
Jason2357@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 61d
Don't threaten me with a good time.
NM_Gringo@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 61d
Right? Talk about not being able to read the room.
ThePyroPython@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 61d
Hmmmmm lower electric bills for our countries electorate OR giant buildings they hate that pollute their water, give them ill health from noise pollution, and take their jobs?
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org · 31 pts · 61d
Damn I don't know, let me ask chatgpt.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 60d
They said they'd love me more if I syntax error input new token so that's what I live by
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip · 28 pts · 61d
I mean, we must choose. Just not in favor of slopcenters burning through resources for highly dubious advantages.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 26 pts · 61d
I'd pay good money to rid the world of AI
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 60d
Not true at all. AI can and should be running on renewables alone.
kraxla@piefed.social · 4 pts · 60d
Yes, Euria and many others in Europa are already doing it.
https://euria.infomaniak.com/
The Problem is not AI but how Datacenters are used in USA.
SalmonTractor@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 60d
And closed-loop cooling. But then it will still emit heat, which should be captured in a downstream process.
dumnezero@piefed.social · 1 pts · 41d
We need that for more important stuff, especially because the effort to replace fossil fuels with renewables is lagging. You don't get to just add new huge energy uses while the old ones haven't been moved to renewables.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 41d
AI use and data centres are definitely being added too quickly.
dumnezero@piefed.social · 1 pts · 40d
Hence, the title of the post here. More AI => more coal and methane burning.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 40d
The implication you write is a choice, not a necessity. Corrected:
More AI => more energy consumption, where energy is any of coal, methane, solar, nuclear, hydro, wind, etc.
Note your unjustified limitation to coal and methane.
dumnezero@piefed.social · 0 pts · 40d
And have you looked at the state of the others, the investment plans, and how long it takes?
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 40d
Yeah the obstacles are the fossil fuel industry's PR and lobbying efforts to slow them down. Very much like what you're doing here and now.
dumnezero@piefed.social · 0 pts · 39d
ahahahaAHHAHahahahahhaha
anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 50d
As long as fossil fuel energy is put on the grid, there is no such thing as running on renewables alone.
For every Watt of green energy you use, someone else uses one less and that gap gets filles by fossil fuels.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 50d
Grids are much more manageable than you think.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 15 pts · 61d
I mean that's an easy choice, but also no fucking way. Rich pricks would pay for data centers even if they had to run them exclusively off renewables. This is a bluff.
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 60d
Cool, fuck off then.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 14 pts · 60d
Lol easy choice
HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 12 pts · 60d
What I find interesting is that a lot of these changes which are attributed to the purportedly "inevitable" changes associated with AI (or partly with its not-adoption), are real consequences of climate change.
It's as if AI is used as a distraction. Like the "accusation in a mirror" pattern.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 60d
How else do you think they will get a one world government? Cause the problems, depopulate the “undesirables”, cause conflict, and offer a solution to fix what you have created. Not a hard concept. The only way people will accept a totalitarian techno-fascist one world government is with an overwhelming catastrophe.
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 60d
So no AI then, eh! Eh?
dumnezero@piefed.social · 9 pts · 61d
ewww
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 60d
They just say it. 🫴
remon@ani.social · 6 pts · 61d
No we don't. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to miss all the climate goals even if we ban data centres.
Rothe@piefed.social · 10 pts · 61d
Most probably. But not by such a high margin. The energy consumption of datacenters is completely insane.
kraxla@piefed.social · 1 pts · 60d
Its not completely Insane for Datacenters or Supercomputers in Europa. Also our Supercomputers are always first in Green500, unlike USAs!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
I just wish we could convince tptb into building that much grid capacity in renewables. For the citizenry. Not for buisness.
I mean I'm aware of a few projects, but like nothing on datacenter scale
ennof@feddit.org · 5 pts · 60d
False dichotomy
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 60d
Yeah we can have a global climate disaster without AI too dudes. We have options [jazz hands emoji dot png]
kraxla@piefed.social · 2 pts · 60d
I want newer, cleaner, superior technology made with the help of AI to lessen, stop or even reverse Climate Change.
Also my Room is to damn hot! XD
dr_robotBones@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 60d
How is a token predictor that can only regurgitate old ideas going to invent something new?
kraxla@piefed.social · -2 pts · 59d
I asked ai to refute this argument, but if you say these false things today, more than 4 year after the chatgpt moment then im probably wasting our time anyway.
Strider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 61d
And if it's not AI it's the next hype. We need to make a stand.
Damage@feddit.it · 1 pts · 61d
I've started playing around with ollama on my PC. The models I've tried so far are hardly comparable to Claude but also aren't completely useless. If performance keeps improving, and hardware does as well, why rush it? We could accomplish similar results while spending a fractions of what others are spending.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 60d
The work I need AI to do is not on my computer. It's my dishes.
Damage@feddit.it · 2 pts · 60d
Hey, so, I have great news for you about washing dishes...
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 60d
That computer picking them off the table, washing them, abs putting them away?
kraxla@piefed.social · 1 pts · 60d
Brain drain and Jobs. China and USA are already releasing less open models and now with fable5 ban for forwign nationals including green card workers a new escalation tier is reached.
nerv@fedinsfw.app · 1 pts · 59d