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   tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 19:02:03 JST tante

   Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.

   Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?

   Here's the actual impact.

   "AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

   https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.2JRa.e3Ju6r_pL1Im

   https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green

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     Silver Huskey (silver_huskey@fandom.ink)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 03:02:09 JST Silver Huskey

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     • Marc

     @Kuttenfunker @tante

     Speak for yourself. I cannot stand Gen AI. I don't use it to write or brainstorm anything for me, I don't use it to generate pictures or video, and if possible I move away from apps/programs/websites that integrate it. If I can't, then I ignore those features.

     I'm not impressed by the prediction machine and its boosters that insist I'll never need to be creative, think, or make decisions for myself ever again- as if those are burdensome things.

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     Marc (kuttenfunker@mastodon.radio)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 03:02:12 JST Marc

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     • Katika Kühnreich

     @Katika @tante Everything may be true. But everyone uses AI, nobody wants to do without it. Then I'd rather use nuclear power, which is low in CO2, than coal and gas.

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     Katika Kühnreich (katika@chaos.social)'s status on Sunday, 29-Jun-2025 03:02:14 JST Katika Kühnreich

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     @tante
     …and they are trying to bring back #nuclear with #AI …

     While #nuclearenergy is not #fossil it not #green at all - but #colonial , #deadly & totally unfair because, like in AI, the #profits are being privatised, the costs are hitting the whole #society & the #planet

     But from the point of view of someone believing in #cybernetics or one of its #TESCREAL grandchildren it is great - because in cybernetics EVERY problem will be solved in "the future" by "technology"