alt Hacker News> incredible amounts of ... energy
So tired of seeing this trope. Data center energy expenditure is like less than 1% of worldwide energy expenditure[1]. Have you heard of mining? Or agriculture? Or cars/airplanes/ships? It's just factually wrong and alarmist to spread the fake news that AI has any measurable effect on climate change.
[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-supply-for-...
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climate change is a hoax, but it's also disingenuous to pretend like ai delivers even an infinitesimal amount of the value of either agriculture or mining. Global population approaches zero without either of those things and if you deleted ai, no one would ever notice.
1% of worldwide energy expenditure is massive, incredible amounts of energy in fact.
It's not just the absolute expenditure. It's the type of expenditure.
https://www.selc.org/news/resistance-against-elon-musks-xai-...