On Aug 17, 2026 17:20, Joerg Jaspert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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".
You mean like this ?
https://d4project.org
Disclaimer: this is my employer. Never the less: 100% green energy, 100% of heat reused in homes.
Truth, we don't do training, only inferencing. But that doesn't change the fact that IT IS possible to run AI in a responsible way.
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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