Microsoft latest report shows 25% emissions raised due to AI data centers(windowscentral.com)
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Microsoft latest report shows 25% emissions raised due to AI data centers
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/dropping-greenwashing-credits-and-expanding-ai-datacenters-caused-microsofts-25-percent-emissions-jump
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AI progress feels much less magical when you include the physical infrastructure and energy costs behind every model call.
It also feels much less magical when you see what people actually waste it on.
Images of hyperrealistic big booby waifus
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A habitable planet.
Which way, western man?
Which way, western man?
You don’t consider surveillance magical!?!?
Unfortunately, this report doesn’t tell us about resource usage per model call. It only tells us the numerator and we also need the denominator.
- some of the recent inventions genuinely feel like "oops this is a bad idea, lets go back one step"
- a non deterministic system that actively atrophies skills and people actively signing up for it left and right has to be one of the wildest things i have seen in my lifetime so far