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[-] [email protected] 107 points 6 days ago

to offset AI carbon emissions

Does it actually do that?

[-] [email protected] 75 points 5 days ago

It's usually nonsense. I remember some carbon offsets being a guy owning a forest and essentially selling his inaction as a carbon offset. Give me a million dollars so I don't chop all those trees down which I totally would've done otherwise. It's just pushing numbers around on a spreadsheet.

In this case I can imagine their calculations being wildly off. How much CO2/methane does a ton of poop actually release? How much CO2 is released to transport that ton and build the facilities that hold it?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah i was expecting the externalized cost route with this one.

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