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[–] 5 points 8 hours ago

AI is, sure. But data centers have been around for literally decades. There’s nothing bleeding edge about it.

We know how to run data centers efficiently and less wastefully. It’s just more expensive so these fucks don’t want to do it.

They could power themselves entirely from solar and wind. They won’t. They could use closed loop cooling. They won’t. Because those options are more expensive and AI isn’t profitable yet (if ever).

They could do like what you’re saying and turn their models into locally run things on the end user device. They won’t because the only way they’re making money right now at all is on the mass data they collect from it.

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