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The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible (futurism.com)

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[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (32 children)

Ok how much is beef farming accountable for

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (28 children)

A huge amount too, 37.9%

But more than one thing can be bad a time, a novel idea, I know

And how many beef farms are there compared to data centers? A lot of a lot more.

If a tiny amount of physical space can do such a large amount of pollution, that's a worry, when the plan is to increase the amount of them.

[–] r1veRRR@feddit.org 13 points 1 week ago (27 children)

Well, sure, but when everyone loses their fucking minds about the tiniest thing, that even requires us to buy all the lies from billionaires about how much the build out will be, while having never done anything about the biggest thing they could personally change, it starts sounding mightily hypocritical.

It seems like the personal responsibility to boycott polluting and unnecessary industries is limited to whatever doesn't require any personal effort from the person speaking.

Napkin math:

40% of americans are very or extremely concerned about AIs environmental impact
To save 34 million tonnes of CO2e, you need about 5.2 million vegans from now until 2030
So only 5% of ONLY the complainers would need to go vegan to make up for this "tremendous" impact
That's 2% of all americans

That's the thing we're even attacking random strangers online for. The thing that we pretend is going to bring about the end times. But sure, veganism is the extreme position.....

By the way, what other resources are we saving?

Water — about 8.8 trillion gallons (~33 billion m³)
Land — around 1–1.5 million acres of forest/land
Animals — roughly 8 billion animals including fish and shellfish

[–] freeman@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Much more realistic: 6% of amicans that eat mostly vegan

[–] FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

12% of Americans that often choose a vegan meal multiple times per week, seems realistic too.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

A quarter of Americans eating more chicken because it's better for the environment is even more realistic. Chicken is tasty!

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