• iopq@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Servers have been eating up a significant portion of electricity for years before AI. It’s whether we get something useful out of it that matters

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      1 year ago

      That’s the hangup isn’t it? It produces nothing of value. Stolen art. Bad code. Even more frustrating phone experiences. Oh and millions of lost jobs and ruined lives.

      It’s the most american way possible that they could have set trillions of dollars on fire short of carpet bombing poor brown people somewhere.