• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    There was always something that was going to prevent this, they never seriously wanted it to happen, that would hurt fossil fuel donations to politicians

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      5 months ago

      I like conspiracy theories like an average bloke does but have you seen quarterly reports from big tech? Their energy consumption and costs are skyrocketing. Are they in cahoots with big oil coal?

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        5 months ago

        What?

        AI is the excuse to burn more fossil fuels.

        If it was just about AI, it could be used as an excuse to build up renewables.

        What I meant was if the excuse wasn’t AI, it would be something else for the excuse.

        The current admin (and trump if he wins) neither have any desire to cut back on fossil fuels. It’s one of the few things propping up “the economy” which is why Biden is shattering the domestic fossil fuel production records that trump just set a few years ago.

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            I’m sorry, I just don’t seem to follow these train of comments.

            Each reply just seems kind of random and not related to what I’m saying.

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              AI is not an excuse to burn fossil fuels. AI exploded and it’s energy consumption exploded, there’s lots of data to back it up. You’re saying if not for AI there would be some other excuse. What excuse would that he? Would fossil fuel industry have to invent something that would consume this much energy?

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                AI is not an excuse to burn fossil fuels

                AI is not a valid reasons to burn more fossil fuels

                It is definitely being used as an excuse to do so.

                And if it wasnt, something else would be.

                I’m sorry if I’m still not explaining that in a clear way, but I don’t think we’re going to resolve this at this point if it still isn’t.

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                  Microsoft and other big tech already power their data centers with their own renewables, and they will continue to do so. In the latest quarterly report from MS they admit they didn’t anticipate AI boom to be this big and so they have to buy more power externally. This is not good for them and they wouldn’t do this on purpose. They will catch up because it’s profitable thing to do.

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    I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Fuck this “AI” nonsense, the techbros shoving it into everything, and the Bitcoin cryptobros that came before them.

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      It’ll be a coal-powered Dyson sphere sustaining data center tasked with generating pictures of celebrity porn, Jesus, flight attendants, babies and seafood. By then AI will enjoy them as much as my mother does.

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      First the “whole ass country of energy use to make fake money” that is bitcoin and now this?

      Lovely.

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    I don’t understand, clean nuclear power has never been easier. Why not just build some current gen nuke plants?

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      It takes a long time to get a nuclear plant up and running. While it would be great to replace coal plants with nuclear, it wouldn’t help with all of the power being wasted on AI right now.

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        Time…

        And a lot of concrete.

        It takes a long time to see the climate gains from a nuclear reactor.

        Hell, depending on size it can take a decade or longer to finish curing, and part of curing is releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.

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            Nuclear waste isnt that big of an issue.

            That part is kind of overblown.

            Hell, for nuclear waste from naval nuclear reactors, I’m pretty sure we still sell it to France. I know we did up to at least a decade ago. They just refine it again and keep using it.

            If it’s radioactive nuclear waste, that means it’s still radioactive.

            All you gotta do is get rid of the non radioactive bits and it’s fuel again. By the time you can’t do it anymore due to prohibitive cost to gain ratio, it’s not a big problem to get rid of it, because it’s not that radioactive

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                I mean yeah…

                Because that part should be…

                I mean, statistically speaking I’m probably the only person that will see this thread that had the US government drop over six figures on teaching nuclear engineering…

                But feel to do some googling about reusing spent fuel to verify for yourself.

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                Yes, because if you read their previous comment you’ll see their primary concern is the CO2 released by curing concrete that is the equivalent of running a coal plant for DOZENS of seconds.