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As a starting point, the burning of fossil fuels, and to a lesser extent deforestation and release of methane are responsible for the warming in recent decades: Graph of temperature as observed with significant warming, and simulated without added greenhouse gases and other anthropogentic changes, which shows no significant warming

How much each change to the atmosphere has warmed the world: IPCC AR6 Figure 2 - Thee bar charts: first chart: how much each gas has warmed the world. About 1C of total warming. Second chart: about 1.5C of total warming from well-mixed greenhouse gases, offset by 0.4C of cooling from aerosols and negligible influence from changes to solar output, volcanoes, and internal variability. Third chart: about 1.25C of warming from CO2, 0.5C from methane, and a bunch more in small quantities from other gases. About 0.5C of cooling with large error bars from SO2.

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US slows plans to retire coal plants as power demand from AI surges | New technologies are straining country’s power supplies and cutting plans to reduce generation of the fuel by nearly half (www.ft.com)
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[–] over_clox 6 points 5 months ago

I wonder just how many AI models are smart enough to respond to questions about the energy crisis partly by saying 'turn me off'...

[–] Blaster_M 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Back when bitcoin mining was all the rage, we had server farms setting up their own power... perhaps it would be in the best interest for AI datacenters to run their own power as well, all renewable. A good investment in cutting that power bill.

[–] JiveTurkey 6 points 5 months ago

Should honestly be a requirement at this point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

There's no need to require that, as long as server farms (and other big energy users) pay the full cost (including environmental externalities) of their energy use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

sigh