"ChatGPT consumes a lot of energy in the process, up to 25 times more than a Google search. Additionally, a lot of water is also used in cooling for the servers that run all that software. Per conversation of about 20 to 50 queries, half a litre of water evaporates – a small bottle, in other words."
AI is predicted to consume twice as much energy as the whole of France by 2030
Training GPT3, took 1,287 MWh (Megawatt hours) of electricity.
You’re falling for the „Individual CO2 footprint fallacy“ that was invented by big oil to divert attention and responsibility away from them, and shift the blame to us individuals.
The point is, if you manage to „fix“ the corporations, the individual footprint of all their customers immediately improves, whether they want it or not.
Simple: Tax negative climate impact (based on the damage it actually causes for society), and the „willing to pay“ argument swings the other way. If the system is rigged (society pays for the damage, corporations take the profits) then the individual is quite helpless, regardless how much you would like to assign them accountability.
It isn’t. In German it‘s called Verursacherprinzip. Not sure if there is an equivalent in English. The idea is: You cause damage, you pay. This principle has two wonderful effects: 1. The expected damage is covered (and not dispersed into society as a whole), and 2. less damaging behavior is incentivized.
They should be, but no. There‘s another German word that explains it: Besitzstandswahrung. Unfortunately, Besitzstandswahrung trumps Verursacherprinzip most of the time.
People tend to be reluctant to accept the Verursacherprinzip because of those instances where it might „incentivize“ them to change their own behavior.
Right! Which was invented by big oil to make us feel guilty individually, so we would be distracted from demanding the necessary changes to the system — which would save the world but hugely impact big oil’s business.
All I’m asking is: Please do not proliferate the distraction. It worked all too well for 50 years already.
@christianschwaegerl@riffreporter 12 qm entspricht ziemlich genau 1 PKW-Parkplatz. Nur mal so als Orientierung. Wenn mich sich Dein Foto anguckt, scheint es genug Platz zu geben (reserviert für „ruhenden Verkehr“).