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AI data centers aren't helping this, and in fact have reversed all progress that was being made:
The Guardian: "...The world is heading for an “irrecoverable overshoot” of global temperature thresholds that will plunge billions of people into disastrous climate impacts because governments have stalled for so long to cut planet-heating emissions, analysis has found...."
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Our alien lizard people overlords prefer a hot moist environment 😉
@ai6yr yes, but …
money!!!!!!
@ai6yr It boggles my mind that Congress is trying to push through S.5653, the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAAJA), which weakens environmental standards including the Clean Water Act, weakens the Endangered Species Act, makes public land available to mining companies, fast tracks new oil and gas development, AND cuts out public and tribal input while handcuffing presidents or courts to make any future changes.
It’s crazy, like they want to supercharge building pollution producing AI data centers with a few crumbs for green energy.
@ai6yr it's odd. The largest issue I think is the separation of an economy to the natural resources substrate.
We should be decreasing use. Datacenters increase use, and are a lazy way to excuse a lack of algorithmic refinement in technology.
An algorithm that decreases natural resources use by half is worth more than an arguable (very!) gain in *perceived* productivity.
@knowprose @ai6yr Productivity relative to what... we can measure energy as well as time. Surely what does the job in half the energy is twice as productive!
@ai6yr That article virtually echoed this scene from The Newsroom... 12 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYp6oc37ds
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@ai6yr We're already neck deep in a slightly different type of overshoot--ecological overshoot. Our global economy is too big for Earth, we would need two earths to support its current size even if it stopped growing, yet everyone is trying to grow the economy further.