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Nobody Asked for AI (jacobin.com)
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[–] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

It may sound odd but I’ve heard people bring up the above point a few times. “AI isn’t bad - if you run it on a sustainable off-grid system it’s perfectly fine.”

But I have NOT encountered people actually doing this even once, let alone a few times. That’s why I was asking.

Anything that wastes energy can be recast as harmless if you put it on an imaginary sustainable setup but that just seems like fantasizing.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Renewable infra isn't sustainable, since it can't be built with renewable energy alone. As such it's just a fossil multiplier. I make about 2/3rd of my own net power, since my electricity meter is old enough to run backwards. I can't install more orelse my meter would read negative. I intend to run a Qwen model that fits my 8 GB HBM Radeon card as an experiment during the day, starting end of this month.

    If this works I consider running something hotter, and double my PV capacity. Adding AC or an EV would be another option. None of this is sustainable, but not exactly a fantasy.

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