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stavrostoday at 12:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

We're talking about global warming specifically here, though. Cars and planes should be a much bigger worry than AI power usage.


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breakyerselftoday at 12:41 PM

Not when AI is directly resulting in increased greenhouse gas pollution. It's all of the above. Any source of greenhouse gas pollution is bad. Cars, planes, ships, AI data centers running on fossil fuel energy. It's all bad.

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ajuctoday at 12:36 PM

There's an easy 19th century solution to cars and planes - public transport. It could reduce the usage significantly, save people lots of time, reduce pollution, make people healthier through making the environment more walkable, reduce crime. We don't do it not because the technology isn't there, but because it's more profitable for people to induce consumption by planning our cities and suburbs around cars.

There's lots of rotting low hanging fruits ignored for decades because politicians are paid by the ladder-sellers.

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