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  • It isn’t being done. Not at scale, nor is there any plans to do so

    There is here in Australia

    Adding to clean energy supply and minimising water footprints will become national expectations for new data centres built on Australian soil.

    https://reneweconomy.com.au/byo-renewables-new-national-principles-set-bar-for-data-centre-energy-and-water-use/

    There is in Europe:

    In Europe renewables and nuclear are set to supply most of the additional electricity required, with their combined share rising to 85% by 2030. Japan and Korea together account for about 5% of global data centre electricity demand today, a share they are expected to retain to 2030. Renewables and nuclear are set to provide nearly 60% of the electricity consumed by data centres in 2030, up from 35% today. The rest of the world is responsible for about 10% of total data centre electricity generation, with Southeast Asia and India accounting for a significant portion of that. In both regions, coal remains a key pillar of the data centre electricity supply, but renewables are projected to eclipse it by 2035.

    https://www.iea.org/reports/energy-and-ai/energy-supply-for-ai

    It’s simple economics, renewables are the cheapest form of electricity so they want it, America != the world

    The fact that AI slop directly engages in hacking our brains, and filling our heads with junk data and hallucinations is not internally inconsistent.

    But how does being fed useful information, coding for us, providing interesting stories, a caring AI boyfriend or girlfriend lead us to enslavement? This is like suggesting we’re slaves to McDonalds, it’s feels less like slavery and more like hyperbole, especially with the existence of open source models…

    There isn’t even a suggestion of intention to give lip-service to the problem so fantasizing about it serves no purpose

    Speaking of open source models, happy release day of mistral medium!

    https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-Medium-3.5-128B

    It’s from Mistral a french company!

    Today, as AI becomes increasingly integrated into every layer of our economy, it is crucial for developers, policymakers, enterprises, governments and citizens to better understand the environmental footprint of this transformative technology. At Mistral AI, we believe that we share a collective responsibility with each actor of the value chain to address and mitigate the environmental impacts of our innovations.

    https://mistral.ai/news/our-contribution-to-a-global-environmental-standard-for-ai

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  • Why aren’t leftists embracing the environmentally-destructive

    It’s only as environmentally destructive as the environment in which it operates, if you train your AI in France using Nuclear power it is effectively carbon free training is it not? The biggest limitation on the carbon use of AI appears to be entirely limited to how fast or slow the USA transitions to renewable energy.

    If you run your LLM locally on a solar powered device is that not carbon free inference?

    the techbro billionaires are using to simultaneously enrich themselves and enslave humanity?

    enrich themselves? I thought AI was a massive money losing adventure bubble that was about to pop?

    enslave humanity? I thought AI was slop not worth of even being used because apparently all it does is hallucinate answers?