cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49851746
Big Tech is moving towards fossil fuels, coincidentally this is happening after the hopped on the Trump-Train, $$$ are calling ;)
A GDPR style carbon fine needs to be a retroactively applied thing to these hyperscale companies.
Every thousand tonnes of carbon they put into the atmosphere should be taxed at 1% of their year’s revenue, not profit.
You want to put 100,000 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a given year? That should cost you everything you make.
For scale: Elon Musk’s XAi data centres are currently puking 6 million tonnes out a year. That’s double the carbon output of the UK
Meta: “We’re getting into VR, it’s the next big thing.”
VR Market Crashes
Meta: “Well, no sweat, we can just pivot to NFTs”
NFT Market Crashes
Meta: “Shit, damn. Okay, we can just migrate all our efforts to AI. That’s booming right now.”
AI Market Tilts Alarmingly
Meta: “Fuck! Fuck! We should… uh… Fossil Fuels! We should do Fossil Fuels! That’s always a safe bet.”
The fossil fuels is BECAUSE of the LLM datacenters.
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 you read Marky Marks entire strategy, are you psychic?! Guess we all know how this will end up then: https://lemmy.world/post/48573158
Why were they even considered a part of it?
Not like Meta did anything to help the planet.
They probably threw a lot of cash at someone to help them look more eco friendly.
