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If AI says that to save them from climate change, humanity has to shutdown AI... (piefed.marud.fr)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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Would companies do it ?

Or would they force it to avoid those kind of answers ?

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[–] -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

I did the math (go look at my comment history) and AI total global energy use is projected to be around 0.4% of the total global energy use by 2030.

There is no way that shutting down AI is even part of the solution to climate change.

Edit: Why are people so resistant to Facts about AI? Nobody is saying I'm wrong, nobody is sharing an article with different calculations that show it's worse than that. The sheer emotion of Anti-AI sentiment has completely broken the ability for people to think critically or even allow other people to provide evidence at this point. It's not AI that's going to doom us, it's people refusing to even acknowledge reality that will be our downfall.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    What do you put in the 0.4 % ?

    Just the running cost, or everything that comes with ? (Datacenters usage, water consumption, hardware building)

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    It's total global energy usage. Water consumption is a different factor, and most of the datacenters now being built don't even use any. The hardware constructions is a trivial component of the overall picture.

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