• Carnelian@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Yes the number is large, but you must weigh the environmental cost against the many benefits we as a society have gained from teaching computers how to incorrectly summarize emails and somehow even simple excel spreadsheets

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    and global warming is my fault because I driver older internal combustion engine vehicles and do not have solar panels on my roof. every time I read about data centers I can feel my brain accumulating more and more injuries.

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    26 days ago

    Theoretical: Could we ballpark a figure of how much CO2 would be produced if every currently building data center were set alight?