Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says
2026-06-22 07:07 UTC
Replies (8)
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@kokesh@lemmy.world 2026-06-22 07:17
Clear answer for me - everything else wins over pointless “AI”
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-06-23 03:09
Lol easy choice
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@ennof@feddit.org 2026-06-23 03:16
False dichotomy
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@libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 2026-06-23 04:13
So no AI then, eh! Eh?
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@betanumerus@lemmy.ca 2026-06-22 17:57
Not true at all. AI can and should be running on renewables alone.
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@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2026-06-23 05:05
What I find interesting is that a lot of these changes which are attributed to the purportedly “inevitable” changes associated with AI (or partly with its not-adoption), are real consequences of climate change. loss of employment? Check. profound change to living conditions? Check. loss of lavour productivity - including knowledge work? Check. threathening the stability of the world-wide financial system? Check. increasing likelihood of war? Check. threathening even the continuity of human civilization? Check. threathening the capability to compete on national scales if the change is not reponded to swiftly by governments? Check. Correlated with obscene amounts of wealth concentration, impoverishing the huge majority of people, and disintegrating societies? Check. It’s as if AI is used as a distraction. Like the “accusation in a mirror” pattern.
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@remon@ani.social 2026-06-22 07:18
No we don’t. I’m pretty sure we’ll be able to miss all the climate goals even if we ban data centres.
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@Damage@feddit.it 2026-06-22 10:11
I’ve started playing around with ollama on my PC. The models I’ve tried so far are hardly comparable to Claude but also aren’t completely useless. If performance keeps improving, and hardware does as well, why rush it? We could accomplish similar results while spending a fractions of what others are spending.