Dubman Along_the_Wire He definitely did as he was replacing his old batteries. It just the initial cost. He could afford it though but most people couldn’t even though they would save money long term
alistair Fascinating thread. AI is a polluting behemoth utterly dependent on energy, raw power and materials. Unsustainable
Old-Dutch No it’s not - IT’S YOU AND YOUR CARBON FOOTPRINT THAT’S TO BLAME. Interesting how much emphasis is being put onto all of us and our lifestyles yet this doesn’t really get much attention at all. It’s almost as if that’s been the agenda all along.
Amps Get some Duck Duck Go in your life, they let you turn off the AI search option. The idea that every web search is now AI powered and burning the planet is mad. Google cunts.
Amps Amps Get some Duck Duck Go in your life, they let you turn off the AI search option. The idea that every web search is now AI powered and burning the planet is mad. Google cunts. Also, if you regularly watch anything on YouTube, you can watch using the DuckDuck player, which means you don’t have to see any adverts.
LT42 Data centres will eventually move under water to help offset energy demands, this type of stuff is studied and measured contantly, its just not for the layman and its certainly not mainstream news.
LT42 There’s a stat that says something along the lines of - “To train one LLM would be equivalent to flying from London to New York 10 times, if we were to look at carbon emissions.”
LT42 Benson, a health care professional, is single handedly destroying most of Northern Europe with his galavanting
benson Getting the train to go skiing in January. Much more civilised and better for the planet. Plus a lovely way to drink a bottle of Pinot noir en route
Amps Hursty He could go to Chamonix and start a tyre fire and it’d be better than he getting a flight to Cancun.
RichM Amps funnily enough been looking at getting a flight to Cancun in Dec and heading down the coast a few hours for some sun sea and tacos. Lovely
Amps Mad_Cyril as that thing is the same temp as the surface of the sun, I fear the modifications needed to pass the MOT might become prohibitive.
