• ikt@aussie.zone
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    11 hours ago

    yep the biggest worry isn’t AI, it’s India

    https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/india-co2-emissions/

    The west is lowering its co2 output while India is slurping up all the co2 we’re saving:

    This doesn’t include China of course, the most egregious of the co2 emitters

    AI is not even a tiny blip on that radar, especially as AI is in data centres and devices which runs on electricity so the more your country goes to renewables the less co2 impacting it is over time

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      9 hours ago

      Could you add the US to the graphs, as EU and West are hardly synonymous - even as it descends into Trumpgardia.

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        6 hours ago

        China has that massive rate because it manufactures for the US, the US itself is a huge polluter for military and luxury NOT manufacturing

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          3 hours ago

          Still the second largest CO2 emitter, so it’d make sense to put it on for the comparison.