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 (DIR) Post #B6KEYNrS7zovZiRWa0 by urlyman@mastodon.social
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       Every “I’ll just ask ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini”, every LLM-generated summary, is driving data centres on a mission to “be bigger than 2,000 Walmarts, dump ‘23 atom bombs worth of energy’ into the environment every day, and terrify locals” https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/this-ai-data-center-will-be-bigger-than-2-000-walmarts-and-dump-23-atom-bombs-worth-of-energy-into-the-environment-every-day-and-locals-are-terrified
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KEYPMgXMOiEs3yts by urlyman@mastodon.social
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       …But hey, that’s no different than flying through climate breakdown, or eating meat that wastes 9 out of 10 calories to provide just 1 while polluting rivers and denuding forests.And that’s working out just fine https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116515374692163447
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KEYQdjnRdGC3377Q by urlyman@mastodon.social
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       …People are saying the scale of data centre at the top will never get built: that pitching them is just a ploy to keep capital flowing into the space.Probably. But the chips are still being fabbed and the outcome of that alone is absolutely *not fab* https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114223366381442605
       
 (DIR) Post #B6KEYSH7iUjPGUU59E by urlyman@mastodon.social
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       …But also probably, the whole sucky thing is already sucking at fumes. And we’re just in the waiting room of the mother of all crashes https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116430466415714704