We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. (www.technologyreview.com)

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[-] turdburglar@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

In April, Elon Musk’s X supercomputing center near Memphis was found, via satellite imagery, to be using dozens of methane gas generators that the Southern Environmental Law Center alleges are not approved by energy regulators to supplement grid power and are violating the Clean Air Act.

elon just sucks more and more every day.

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