@KarlHeinzHasliP@climatejustice.social
Post #1412148
2026-04-03 20:58 UTC
@zkat I think you are buying propaganda. LLMs can't actually do peoples jobs.
Job loss is real, but seems to have more to do with fascism and late stage capitalism, and less with the extremely energy inefficient statistical next-word-prediction algorithms.
The heat islands by data centers go away if you switch off the data center.
In contrast, CO2 stays in the atmosphere for 1000s of years and is thermo-dynamically & ecologically near impossible to remove at the scale required.
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@zkat@toot.cat 2026-04-03 22:32
@KarlHeinzHasliP I have literally seen screenshots of executives ordering layoffs to replace specific positions with agents
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@b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town 2026-04-04 14:35
@KarlHeinzHasliP @zkat Actually, in the research I shared re: the previous post (sorry for the repeat), the heat islands don’t go away when the data centers are turned off because construction (roofs, parking lots, roads, etc) is a significant driver of heating, unless built with intention (high albedo, green roofs, tree cover)! https://blog.andymasley.com/p/data-centers-heat-exhaust-is-not