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Scientists detect a sharp acceleration in global warming (www.sciencedaily.com)
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[–] 19 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Hmm I wonder if it might have anything to do with all the data centres popping up everywhere??

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  • [–] 10 points 3 weeks ago

    But AI will fix it though!!!! /s

    Honestly, AI is a very cool technology. I work it in and I love it, but it's amazingly disappointing that instead of building models up fold proteins and advance humanity, we built propaganda bots, surveillance and people outsource their intelligence.

    And we could have invested heavily into more efficient competing, but instead we just burn the world.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    I wouldn't say that they have that much effect yet.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yeah, there's localized effects. Like where I live, particulate matter and ozone skyrocketed after they installed a massive gas-powered datacenter in the neighboring town. But globally, it takes forever for these effects to pile up and cause a dent. Which is why they are measured in average increase per decade.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    They have the effect of massively increasing our energy consumption at a time when we desperately need to cut down on it. Just to mention one thing in the slew of disastrous things this AI bubble is causing to our ability to just do the bare minimal to counter our climate disaster.

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