Post #2030011
2026-05-05 17:46 UTC
Local models spin your GPU like a video game. Unless you think Overwatch is a climate disaster
90% of users aren’t playing Overwatch.
And even if you are, that’s a significant increase in power draw if you’re spinning up a local LLM every time you start to type into your browser’s address bar to do a search or something.
And, most importantly, you can choose when and if you want to play Overwatch. It didn’t get installed without your knowledge and consent, and it doesn’t run automatically.
Replies (2)
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@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-05 18:48
If everyone chose to play Overwatch, would that be a climate catastrophe, specifically?
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@MysticMushroom1776@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-05-06 04:47
Please tell me you aren’t using a carbon footprint argument, you know. The ones Oil companies use to blame us, a population of people for climate change, instead of take action against them, and their corporate buddies. Who are a single large contributor, if not the entire problem in and of itself. Even though we’re probably very different in our beliefs I would agree that I don’t want things using GPU without my consent. But I don’t agree in justifying it or hatred of AI with carbon footprint rhetoric created by the companies who created this problem in the first place.