@rysiek @craignicol
Is it the case that China's carbon emissions are falling? I'd like that to be true, but the BBC article said they are still building coal power plants. OurWorldInData shows their CO2 emissions still increasing: https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/china

@rysiek once we build all these 20GW power stations it'll solve the climate crisis, promise!

@rysiek I have seen several historians of technology state that humanity has never decreased its use of any energy source planetwide. There have been geographical shifts, but globally, all energy use has always gone up. Even before AI.

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I wonder if there's also some backroom deals between the American oil industry and the American tech industry.

Trump is doing everything in his power to keep the fossil fuel industry alive, and having AI suck up energy helps drive up belief in the long term demand for fossil fuels

It seems like they could easily be some intentional cooperation between the two industries.

And if you hear anyone claiming – like heavily AI invested¹ Bill Gates has claimed² – that "AI" will help solving the climate crisis, remember this:

We really don't need a supercomputer to tell us what needs to be done. This is not rocket surgery. We need to lower fossil fuel emissions. That's it. And we already know this.

AI "helping" with climate crisis is purely hypothetical at this point. But the harms related to this bubble are already here. In form of coal plants not being retired.