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"By comparison, data centres consumed 415 TWh in 2024, roughly 1.5% of the world’s total electricity consumption (see ‘Global electricity growth’)."
Electricity accounts for about 1/3 of global GHGs, so data centres are <1% of global GHGs.
"They found that servers for AI accounted for 24% of server electricity demand and 15% of total data centre energy demand in 2024."
@timbray computer usage just isn't as carbon intensive a process as driving a car. Even with hundreds of billions being spent on new data centres, it's not a big part of the global emissions profile.
@timbray my previous job was building greenhouse gas inventories.
Data centres are responsible for about 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions. AI is responsible for about 15% of the data centre emissions, or about 0.15% of global emissions.
People who talk about AI burning up the planet don't spend a lot of time thinking about what's really burning up the planet: fossil fuels for transportation and heating, deforestation, and cattle.
@SonsOfLibertyOfficial Does Leaf on the Wind get any lines?
@sh 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
@fatsam wow, amazing!
@wcbdata what was it called?
@lina right. One thing that Debian does, for example, is strip out parts of the kernel that don't meet its requirements for free software (especially binary blobs). I guess an AI-immaculate Linux distro would need to do something similar.
@squinky sure. I guess I meant, a distribution for people who don't want to use software developed with AI assistance.
Is there a Linux distro that only includes software made without AI assistance?
This is a really interesting result. The choices weren't great -- for people in small countries or near a border, going to another country an hour away counts as "the whole planet".
Regardless, this was a neat discussion. For me, I go to Toronto, Upstate New York or New England for shows all the time, but if something's farther away than that, it's a miss for me. I'm also pretty interested in lesser-known local bands. So I'd say "region".
Thanks everyone for the responses!
@brooke SPOILERS!!!
@timbl Thanks for the work you do.
@stevebate thanks for the great work on FEP-ae0c (relays). It's been really helpful for me.
@dick_turpin @andyc @steevc what is it, a desk calculator?
@aharoni I have taken my teens to a dozen shows or so, and it's been a great experience every time.
@jonathan fortunately the stakes are extremely low
@dick_turpin @andyc @steevc just kidding! I had an option to log in with Mastodon early on, which I took.