#climateDiary
Let 6 minutes of James Meadway’s Macrodose (from 1:30 minutes to 7:30) eloquently walk you through:
“Our wildly complex industrial capitalist economy, developed over the last 200 years, and refined – as in the semiconductor supply chain – into systems of exceptional complexity, was built for times of environmental stability and abundant resources. Those times are now coming to an end.“
The growth sliiiiide,
that Rachel is going to make go up?
We’re taking
1. the *most extreme purity* ever engineered in a mass production context and…
2. pushing it into a *rapidly degrading environment* and…
3. building out an entire economy on new levels of *waste* (which feeds back on 2)
“The utilization rates of GPUs for AI workloads in a datacenter run by cloud service providers is between 60% and 70%. With such utilization rates, a GPU will typically survive between one and two years, three years at the most”
…No problem with GPUs being manufactured in volumes greater than ever, to have a server life of a few years at most https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/115552845413535621
No problem with basing all this on exceedingly rare quartz deposits that get flooded https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113236845312214531
No problem with building out entire economies dependent on all this not only standing up but *growing* https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/113998114844279545
