Re: Environmental impact of Debian's AI usage

On 18054 March 1977, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:

> Really? Is it? I do *not* see that at all.

You must be blind.

> There is nothing inherently dirty in the AI technolgies or datacenters
> in general.

"There is nothing inherently evil in knifes, guns or weapons at all".
Etc. pp.

> Just because weak oversight in USA allows *a few* bad apples cut all 
> the
> corners and power their AI datacenters with gas turbines or old coal 
> power
> plants does not mean that *all* AI is dirty and damaging to the 
> environment.

You must have your head very deep down in the sand to not see all the 
news about the various datacenter / ai companies planning ever larger 
"factories". With extra coal/gas power plants just for them. Larger 
values of those for single data centers than needed to run whole 
countries on this world (and notan under-developed country even). Lots 
of them companies entirely ditching their "green it" plans (however they 
named their plans to go co2-neutral, whatever one may think about those 
plans in general).

That is, for sure, entirely imagined by everyone, right?

I'm sure there are ways how the whole AI thing could be run in something 
that more people would label as "useful, acceptable" and not "world 
burning sh*t". I'm also sure that the amount of such AI currently is a 
not-measurable, statistically insignificant amount of it all.