I like how people treat these data centers magically different from the same shit we've been doing for like 40 years now.

As if suddenly now its a big deal.

The best part is the same people will use literally any type of AWS backed system and pretend its not just as bad for the environment.

People are too bad at math to go realize there's like forty other things they do in normal day-to-day life that's just as bad, if not worse, for the environment that jacks up their carbon footprint, as if AI is a big deal.

If you:

• use amazon
• use netflix
• eat red meat
• drive a gas powered vehicle of any kind
• drive an electric vehicle that you dont charge via renewables
• use an electric stove
• Eat fast food

And many many other things, then any of those things are way bigger carbon footprints than a person fucking around with an LLM for an hour or two.

And if you try and act high and mighty about how bad AI is and how bad people are for using it, and proceed to do multiple of the things above, you are a massive hypocrite and an asshole, full stop. Go fix your own shit before judging others.

I dont drive my car to work, grow my own food, take fairly cold showers, avoid eating fast food, and am getting solar panels added to my home, so statistically speaking even using an LLM many times per day my carbon footprint is a fraction of other peoples, so kindly fuck off :)

Yup, in a theoretical, say, socialist utopia where nobody has to work, most of the work would need to be automated. Anything where people need to work less demands automation to replace what currently needs to be done by humans. Automation does cause problems, both temporary ones by taking people's jobs, and more long-term ones when replacing the jobs people want to do, but it seems like an inevitable and necessary step into the future.

I mean, even AI isnt as bad as people make it out to be, people have GROSSLY overexaggerated the consumption of it to fit their narratives

If you crunch the numbers, a few hours of using even the most hungry of LLMs uses less water than washing your hands once >_>;

People don't wanna hear it though because it doesnt fit their "AI bad" narrative

Millennials need to take a very long look in the mirror and realize this is their "phones bad" boomer moment and take the initiative to grow up. Its cringe and most of their gripes arent backed by reality.

Do LLM datacenters eat up power? Are they bad for the environment? Do they use a lot of water?

Yes... but they arent even in the top 10 of worst offenders that have been around for way longer and per-capita fuck shit up way worse

My fellow Millennials are only hating on AI cuz they are scared of it, or deeply deeply misinformed.

Id honestly be really curious to see a pool on how much water people think 1 convo with an LLM actually takes, Id bet the answers are so incredibly far off.

(The reality is its only a couple mL of water or so, depending on the model, if you wanna know)