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 :)