Climate is out. Climate tech too.
replyAI is in.
With oil prices rising, climate tech is still quietly advancing.
replyThis was the only way change was ever going to happen: when economics forced it.
replyReally because Spain and Norway did it through government interventions to guide markets.
replyWe don't have to be slaves to unregulated markets or the oligarchs they naturally breed.
I guess that could also be phrased as: out of 180+ countries only Spain and Norway managed it in limited ways.
replyUntrue, or at least distorted with all the obvious and hidden fossile subsidies.
replywhat if we used AI on the climate
replyJust gotta build out those data centers first. For the climate, of course.
replyImpact compared to other life necessary structures of big cities is small. (Water, power etc...) But yeah, it still consumes.
replyA single data center can consume over well over 650 MW which is enough electricity for nearly 500,000 homes, which is more homes than the entire population of Miami Florida. Amazon has a 1,037 MW AI data center.
replyThe main consumers of electricity are industrial, not homes. Nothing we take for granted in a home would exist without those industrial supply chains, including data centers. The homes are downstream of continued investment in and expansion of the processes that actually consume most of the electricity.
replyI'm sure you're abstaining from using AI, for the climate of course.
replyI'm not here to lose, but my definition of winning might be different.
replyImagine if we move to Mars only to find out we used to live there...
replyNah. For centuries up to the 1850s, climate was looking pretty dicy. The little ice age, had it gone on, might have represented a return a big ice age.
replyThe heroic efforts of early industrialists adding carbon to the atmosphere avoided this calamity and set us up with a level of comfy and productive climate unknown in the quaternary.
Amazing how humanity keeps lucking out like this.
I wonder if there were any climate change alarmists around 20,000 years ago; telling everyone that the planet was doomed if those mile-deep glaciers covering New York ever melted?
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