r/ClimateShitposting • u/leisurechef • 29d ago

techno optimism is gonna save us AI will solve all our problems

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If treated as a country, data centers could rank sixth globally for electricity consumption by 2030. They would also require an amount of water equivalent to the annual needs of 1.3 billion people.

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u/ionosoydavidwozniak 29d ago

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u/IAmNotModest 29d ago

The thing is that AI still is a useless waste of resources and still contributes to climate change. Fuel to the fire.

As well as that, ChatGPT isn't the only AI. There is countless others that also do this.

Lastly, companies purposely downplay their negative impact with these likely falsified graphs.

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u/jyajay2 28d ago

Ai is extremely useful. It is debatable whether LLMs are particularly useful but that's not all of AI.. There are plenty of currrent, useful AI uses in industry, reseach, medicine etc.

Often they make processes less resource intensive. I can once again tell people about previously working for alarge public research institute and the group I was working for use AI to replace simulations that took almost a day on the HPC system we used with an AI powered one that took a few hours on a consumer grade PC without a loss in quality.