Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

@cm0002@lemmy.world · 17 days ago

Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

@Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · edit-2 16 days ago

Also the energy for those datacenters has to come from somewhere and non-renewable options (gas, oil, nuclear generation) also use a lot of water as part of the generation process itself (they all relly using the fuel to generate the steam to power turbines which generate the electricity) and for cooling.

lime! · 16 days ago

steam that runs turbines tends to be recirculated. that’s already in the paper.

@untakenusername@sh.itjust.works · 7 days ago

nuclear isn’t that bad ngl France uses a ton of it

and the wastewater that nuclear power plants make, its barely radioactive at all