Re:Addressing AI’s energy cost
by wyre on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @12:37PM
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Without a carbon tax comparing the price of two massively energy consuming entities doesn’t mean much of anything in regards to our climate crisis.
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From the point of view of climate change, the fact that data centres are often and increasingly carbon neutral (because that’s the cheapest source of electricity, no carbon tax needed) while jet fuel isn’t usually derived from biofuel means there’s a significant possibility, albeit not a certainty, of a divide by zero error.