Saying its worth the deaths of thousands of people to knock maybe one part in a thousand of human carbon emissions is not.
Let me give you some scale. In 2024 estimated Power usage on AI was 415TWh In the same year total energy usage was around 592 Exajoules or around 164,444 TWhr.
The "o"s are AI usage the +s are other energy usages, the +s are significantly more polluting as about 2/3rds of them are burning fossil fuels directly for heating and transport.
And yet power usage in places like Virginia are soaring far past your claim of a mere fraction of a percent according to EIA, in addition to the fact that nearly all of these facilities have their own gas burner generators built in, and it’s expected to keep doubling power usage as more and more datacenters go online.
Why do you keep trying to justify throwing gas on the fire because the fire was already there? It doesn’t matter how clean or dirty the power used by humans was before, you will never be able to justify using even more power on worthless bullshit.
Sure, fine. That’s a reasonable stance to take.
Saying its worth the deaths of thousands of people to knock maybe one part in a thousand of human carbon emissions is not.
Let me give you some scale. In 2024 estimated Power usage on AI was 415TWh In the same year total energy usage was around 592 Exajoules or around 164,444 TWhr.
Or to give you a visual:
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The "o"s are AI usage the +s are other energy usages, the +s are significantly more polluting as about 2/3rds of them are burning fossil fuels directly for heating and transport.
And yet power usage in places like Virginia are soaring far past your claim of a mere fraction of a percent according to EIA, in addition to the fact that nearly all of these facilities have their own gas burner generators built in, and it’s expected to keep doubling power usage as more and more datacenters go online.
Why do you keep trying to justify throwing gas on the fire because the fire was already there? It doesn’t matter how clean or dirty the power used by humans was before, you will never be able to justify using even more power on worthless bullshit.