Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
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re: the photo
Wow. Look at that security. Just a wimpy chain link fence to protect it. It'd be super easy for a mob of angry citizens to storm that place and destroy it. Bet there's a lot of valuable equipment in there. Only an observation. Just sayin. Y'know.
@ralfmaximus @gerrymcgovern Sure, for a direct assult. But I feel people often forget just how much these things depend on external resources.
There's power and data access somewhere. Given the location, the cables probably have to run far from the building before connecting to anything...
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Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
@gerrymcgovern the bad news is that it’s already collapsing. The good news is that it’s not happening as fast as you would think in the beginning.
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Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
@gerrymcgovern Interestingly I read an article in an Austrian newspaper about this topic - and the expert that was interviewed had the view, that one cannot damn AI alltogether because AI "improves the life of billions of people". Which made me wonder: what kind of improvements could this be? Ideas?
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000323330/ki-rechenzentren-duerften-2030-einen-wasserverbrauch-wie-13-milliarden-menschen-haben -
Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
@gerrymcgovern makes me think of this:
Double it again, keep on doubling…
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@gerrymcgovern Interestingly I read an article in an Austrian newspaper about this topic - and the expert that was interviewed had the view, that one cannot damn AI alltogether because AI "improves the life of billions of people". Which made me wonder: what kind of improvements could this be? Ideas?
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000323330/ki-rechenzentren-duerften-2030-einen-wasserverbrauch-wie-13-milliarden-menschen-haben@stephan324ppm @gerrymcgovern Maybe he was misquoted and it was actually "billionaires and some other people"
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@gerrymcgovern Interestingly I read an article in an Austrian newspaper about this topic - and the expert that was interviewed had the view, that one cannot damn AI alltogether because AI "improves the life of billions of people". Which made me wonder: what kind of improvements could this be? Ideas?
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000323330/ki-rechenzentren-duerften-2030-einen-wasserverbrauch-wie-13-milliarden-menschen-haben@stephan324ppm
"improves the life of billions of people".Yeah, the UN report made that sort of evidence free tech optimistic statement as well. When it's more likely to be the very opposite.
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@stephan324ppm @gerrymcgovern Maybe he was misquoted and it was actually "billionaires and some other people"
@MyricaGale @gerrymcgovern Yes, definitely!
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@stephan324ppm
"improves the life of billions of people".Yeah, the UN report made that sort of evidence free tech optimistic statement as well. When it's more likely to be the very opposite.
@gerrymcgovern I mean it‘s possible we get some improvements in medical diagnostics for instance - but I guess it’s a long way until billions of people benefit from this.
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@gerrymcgovern Interestingly I read an article in an Austrian newspaper about this topic - and the expert that was interviewed had the view, that one cannot damn AI alltogether because AI "improves the life of billions of people". Which made me wonder: what kind of improvements could this be? Ideas?
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000323330/ki-rechenzentren-duerften-2030-einen-wasserverbrauch-wie-13-milliarden-menschen-haben -
Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
@gerrymcgovern @patrickhadfield ironically, the Chinese are working hard to reverse engineer and distill all the frontier models into open weight models that everyone can run *locally* on high powered laptops, no data centers needed aside from initial distillation. It’s a weird thing to cheer for but I am.
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@gerrymcgovern I mean it‘s possible we get some improvements in medical diagnostics for instance - but I guess it’s a long way until billions of people benefit from this.
@stephan324ppm @gerrymcgovern it’s also made vapid, content free LinkedIn posts much easier to write, so really no one is losing here.
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Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
„Rather, it calls for urgent action to ensure that the technology develops within planetary limits.“
And how is this feasible?
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@gerrymcgovern @patrickhadfield ironically, the Chinese are working hard to reverse engineer and distill all the frontier models into open weight models that everyone can run *locally* on high powered laptops, no data centers needed aside from initial distillation. It’s a weird thing to cheer for but I am.
@kumarvibe @gerrymcgovern @patrickhadfield
Don't fully understand this toot, but find it encouraging nonetheless. (Is this a sign of personal cognitive decline in my late sixties, out of interest?) #hellishdatacentres -
Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
@gerrymcgovern we are Easter Island
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Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
@gerrymcgovern Humanity is no longer the apex predator, supreme in its domination. Big Tech is. And why more aren't conscious that makes us part of the AI's food chain is beyond me.
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@gerrymcgovern we are Easter Island
@MamaLake It's the elites who are driving this but we are too passive, we must resist much more.
And from what I've read recently about Easter Island, the Indigenous people there managed their resources much better than what was thought. It was later invasions by imperialists that did the real damage.
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@gerrymcgovern I mean it‘s possible we get some improvements in medical diagnostics for instance - but I guess it’s a long way until billions of people benefit from this.
@stephan324ppm @gerrymcgovern As soon as genAI without any doubt improves either democracy or the environment or knowledge equity I will start doubting my own total genAI abstinence. Of course, if that happens, it will become clear that especially in the mid and long term you cannot foster one without the other two.
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@kumarvibe @gerrymcgovern @patrickhadfield
Don't fully understand this toot, but find it encouraging nonetheless. (Is this a sign of personal cognitive decline in my late sixties, out of interest?) #hellishdatacentres -
Imagine something that in 2020 didn't really exist but has so exploded onto our environment that in 2030 it will demand the water of 1.3 billion people and the electricity of 2 billion.
In a time when we have a global historic severe drought and when our civilization is about to collapse due to over-consumption of energy.
This is AI.
This is Big Tech
These are the tech bros. Here to burn it all down for greed and ambition.
@gerrymcgovern
Can someone please explain to me how data centres will 'consume' so much water? There are plenty of energy intensive industries that have a heat dissipation need. If there's so much energy to dissipate put a fucking big heat exchanger out at sea and think about making them nursaries for fish/coral or something. It seems MAD to keep data centres where shifting the heat means single-use water. Use brine or molten salt or puréed billionaires in a closed loop heat exchanger near a heat sump where heat damage will be containable & acceptable.OR just say, "the price for that much AI is unsustainable. Sorry, but NO!"
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@gerrymcgovern
Can someone please explain to me how data centres will 'consume' so much water? There are plenty of energy intensive industries that have a heat dissipation need. If there's so much energy to dissipate put a fucking big heat exchanger out at sea and think about making them nursaries for fish/coral or something. It seems MAD to keep data centres where shifting the heat means single-use water. Use brine or molten salt or puréed billionaires in a closed loop heat exchanger near a heat sump where heat damage will be containable & acceptable.OR just say, "the price for that much AI is unsustainable. Sorry, but NO!"
@gregalotl Up until a couple of years ago, most data centers didn't even meter their water use because they were getting it so cheap. Evaporation is the cheapest way to cool and they will always go for the cheapest unless they are forced not to. They have total contempt for our environment and for the communities in which they locate.
