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Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers (www.techradar.com)
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A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.

The extra demand from GenAI will reportedly lead to a rise in emissions from 200 million tons this year to 600 million tons by 2030, thanks largely to the construction of more data centers to keep up with the demand for cloud services.

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 72 points 1 month ago (5 children)

the most fucked up part about this is that it's not like regular people account for more than a fraction of the AI usage, most of it is just other companies using it to replace workers or just.. paying for AI usage instead of fucking paying a stock photo company instead..

i hate corporations i hate corporations i hate corporations

[–] ampersandcastles@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Every negative article I read about AI is simply an attribution to capitalism. It's incredibly funny.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago

it's literally just mechanical looms all over again, this shit happens over and over and over and at no point do people learn that this will continue as long as we allow capitalism to persist.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget the garbage listicle websites which pollute every search for "the best x" where x is something like a vacuum cleaner. Judging by the utter uselessness of search engines these days, there must be A LOT of those sites...

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist
this addon has made my search experience so much better

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

You should make a general post about this to promote it. I just installed it, along with the blocklist Nikelui posted below and I've seen a huge difference in my search results. Thank you!

[–] clif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ooo, I'll have to check this out. Thank you

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I actually got into a fight over suggesting someone to use stock photos instead of grungy-smeary AI generated images for their (sh)articles, so at least I won't believe it was too AI generated. Then they insisted on it being their own creation, and how they became an artist through words.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Our planet is literally dying, and humankind is going to be decimated (at least) directly due to the actions of corporations.

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.world -5 points 1 month ago

Exactly! I was just saying the same thing in another post!