"I always feared that the AI data center boom was likely going to make the looming climate catastrophe inevitable, but there was something about seeing it all presented on a platter with a smile and an excited presentation that struck me as more than just tone-deaf. It was damn near revolting."
"I'm going to give Huang and all the other tech CEOs the benefit of the doubt here and say that this isn't about pure greed at the end of the day."
It is. It's pure greed.
https://www.techradar.com/computing/i-watched-nvidias-computex-2024-keynote-and-it-made-my-blood-run-cold?campaign_id=54&emc=edit_clim_20240711&instance_id=128523&nl=climate-forward®i_id=212319426&segment_id=171906&te=1&user_id=426099f95c578ed04d71fac12de20b00
Gerry McGovern /
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2024-07-30 05:26:44
in reply to nevent1q…2jsc
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