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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 hours ago

Sammy boy, that argument doesn't hold up for 10 seconds under any actual scrutiny. Yes, humans use energy too.

  1. Your datacenters are using a shitload more energy than they are hypothetically replacing in human work

  2. Even if it was a 1 to 1 replacement of human energy to AI energy expenditure, people don't eat electricity. We, in fact, have two entirely different sets of infrastructure for food vs electricity. If you just dump a bunch of extra load into one of the systems randomly, it's going to cause issues.

Fuck Altman and this shitty attempt at covering for his bad product.

[–] xyro@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Will someone think about the AI ?

[–] Steve@startrek.website 2 points 4 hours ago

AI deserves hooman rights too!

[–] brian@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I don't truly understand the water concerns that a lot of people talk about. like unless these centers are pulling water from the mains, letting it flow through their system once, then dumping it; I don't get how they would be using such astronomical amounts as people claim

[–] Luccus@feddit.org 6 points 3 hours ago

It's evaporative cooling. Basically they are dumping it; into the atmosphere.