• Deflated0ne@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    Show me the chess machine that caused rolling brown outs and polluted the air and water of a whole city.

    I’ll wait.

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      15 hours ago

      Servers have been eating up a significant portion of electricity for years before AI. It’s whether we get something useful out of it that matters

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        8 hours ago

        That’s the hangup isn’t it? It produces nothing of value. Stolen art. Bad code. Even more frustrating phone experiences. Oh and millions of lost jobs and ruined lives.

        It’s the most american way possible that they could have set trillions of dollars on fire short of carpet bombing poor brown people somewhere.

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        11 hours ago

        Not even remotely close to this scale… At most you could compare the energy usage to the miners in the crypto craze, but I’m pretty sure that even that is just a tiny fraction of what’s going on right now.

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          8 hours ago

          Crypto miners wish they could be this inefficient. No literally they do. They’re the “rolling coal” mfers of the internet.