• Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Texas has just asked residents to take less showers while datacenters made specifically for LLM training continue operating.

    This is more like feeling bad for not using a paper straw while local factory dumps all their oil change into the community river.

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      3 months ago

      Maybe they should cut down on Beef first, it uses exponentially more water than AI and CO2

      • 1 kg Beef = 60kg CO2 - source
      • 1000km Return flight = 314kg CO2 - source
      • 1 Bitcoin transaction = 645kg of CO2 - source
      • 1000 AI prompts = 3kg of CO2 - source
      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from community
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        3 months ago

        your source about beef relies on poore-nemecek 2018, a paper with dubious methodology