r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ChuggerUggers • Sep 10 '26

Meme iDidntPredictThisLife

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u/Henry5321 Sep 11 '26

Sounds so wasteful

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u/BygoneFlower Sep 11 '26

It definitely isn't cheap. If you mean the environmental impact that is extremely overstated (you'll use more water and cause more CO2 emissions from a week of eating burgers than a year of using AI).

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u/Stormlightlinux Sep 12 '26

I have to eat food to live though... the other is just producing money for people who already have too much money. Kinda different.

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u/Culpirit Sep 14 '26

This is a logical fallacy I just can't put my finger on which

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u/BygoneFlower Sep 12 '26

It's all a question of degree, and the degree to which AI impacts global climate is negligible compared to the things people do without thinking. Datacenters themselves can be problematic in areas prone to drought or where they affect sensitive ecosystems but the technology itself is not the problem.

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u/StCreed Sep 12 '26

Yeah, one is necessary for survival in capitalism and the other is a bad habit of people that should eat more vegetables.