Re: Environmental impact of Debian's AI usage

Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.vote
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Amin Bandali <[email protected]> writes:

> | In 2025, our total ambition-based emissions were approximately 
> | 14.5 million tCO2e, representing an 18% year-on-year increase
> | and an 81% increase compared to our 2019 base year [...]

> https://sustainability.google/google-2026-environmental-report/

And that's even before one starts asking questions about how many industry
environmental claims are based on green-washing scams like carbon offsets.
Or about the environmental damage caused by mining and processing of rare
earth minerals to make the disposable GPUs that are filling these new data
centers.
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