Yes, obviously AI is emitting way too much. It shouldn’t even be producing 0.2% of global emissions, let alone 2%. My main grievance is that no one ever talks about improving industrial and agricultural processes even though they produce around 29% of emissions and 20% of emissions respectively.
Emissions from AI datacenters offend because of just how unnecessary they are.
Just like the meat industry and large parts of commercial flight.
So you’re saying that the thing humans have been doing since we learned to sharpen a stick, literally thousands of years… Is unnecessary?
We’ve only had industrialized meat farming for like a hundred years
Today, yes. And especially the shape of it. Just like with LLM the problem would be a lot smaller if it was done in moderation, withethical practices and the lives and well-being of those involved in mind.
Both meat and LLMs have use cases, and both needs to tone down on the shitty practices and world destroying emissions.
Unnecessary power use, unnecessary water.