Re: Environmental impact of Debian's AI usage

Manuel Traut <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 2026-08-20 12:04, schrieb Aigars Mahinovs:
> On Thu, 20 Aug 2026 at 11:54, Holger Levsen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 11:30:57AM +0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
>>> It is a basic failure of logic. If you claim that "all dogs are
>> black" and
>>> [...]
>> 
>> It is a basic failure of logic. If you claim that "smoking kills"
>> and I show
>> you a smoker who's alive...
> 
> You say "smoking" kills and I show you "cigarettes" that *have been
> proven* NOT to kill, because they simply do not have any harmful
> substances or harmful processes. Your argumentation is baseless. That
> what you get by simplifying any real science out of your
> argumentation. That is not serious.
> 
> There is zero environmental harm created by a datacenter running on
> green energy and using environmentally-frendly air cooling in the
> middle of a highland forest. Regardless of if that datacenter is
> running AI inference of Debian CI jobs. You can see a recent video
> looking at one of such datacenters here: https://youtu.be/MQeJYEN_lrg

And all the components needed to build this datacenter also created no 
harm?
End-of-life of the datacenter and recycling all those materials also 
creates no harm?
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