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Cane here to see how people were gonna spin this as a bad thing. Was not disappointed.
The visualization of the data, while interesting and informative, is created by pooping out a shitload more carbon. So it's like Leo using a private jet to fly to COP to tell everyone to fly less.
Aside from Googles claims that they’re carbon neutral and only use/purchase renewable, how much carbon is this going to create?
Yeah, Google aint carbon neutral. Carbon credits are fake. You can't pay another country to add your emissions to theirs and say that you're neutral. That's greenwashing. Good question though about the carbon emissions. I don't have any data to draw on, but it would be some kind of function of how many PCs/server racks are responsible for processing the data.
Carbon credits should instead be a tax - one that every major corporation has to pay based off their carbon emissions, and the funds should be used exclusively to fund renewable energy sources, renewable goods manufacturing, and to repair the damage done by traditional fuels.
Money being fungible, its all functionally the same. But our business-friendly government officials tend to be stingy with taxes and generous with credits. So its politically more expedient for the legislature to offer large bounties on plugged pipes than to pass a large penalty on unplugged ones.
That's because of a little thing called "kickbacks" which keep the whole engine of publicly funded commerce running. My carbon capture credit becomes your campaign donation becomes next years "My rival punched a baby" screamer news ad plus hush money for the mom of the baby I punched six months ago.
They'll need to start consuming all that extra electricity to power LLMs to analyze climate change data🤔
Soon they’ll be selling methane credits to the oil companies.
No. It's like Leo using a cheap little 20 lb drone to find a BP oil rig explosion, report it back to the company, and tell them to plug the leak.