Some random Chinese company: does something jenky
Blogger: “The entire country of China is doing this jenky thing!”
They just added a fee so that AWS can’t copy it without paying. What’s the big deal.
It’s behind a paywall
Can we stop with the AI misinformation? AI is not slurping up consumer power. All major tech companies use privately generated, non-consumer power.
Bitcoin is still causing these power grid issues. It has been since 2019.
Edit: to the brainturds downvoting without even looking into it, read it from the source
A few of these are not red flags though… Yellow at best
The author neglected to link to the actual report. Page 34 and 35. The Scope 2 stats the article cited don’t account for clean power generated.
Their link for the claim “Google cited AI as the cause” doesn’t mention power at all.
The link for the Microsoft numbers takes me to a report saying the 30% number is for Scope 3 emissions, which have nothing to do data center power usage.