Simon Brooke on Nostr: nprofile1q…5n90q are we conflating two things here? By no means all data centres ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqxxemmfvctc02ug4ue2u8sr2z683wpprh3ntl5r5gc3cd7l3f02asv5n90q (nprofile…n90q) are we conflating two things here? By no means all data centres are running #AI workloads; many are running conventional algorithmic code. To what extent is it the expansion of in carbon emissions is specifically associated with AI projects?

I'm not defending AI here: I'm aware that it is exceedingly compute intensive and greatly oversold. But what (else) is actually going on?

Data centres tend to be fairly inscrutable.