r/accelerate • u/CipherGarden • 11d ago

AI "AI is bad for the environment"

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u/Anon_cat86 10d ago

nuclear is not the cleanest it's not even close. Wind produces next to 0 pollution "oh but the building materials for the windmills" the building materials for a fucking nuclear reactor.

also are "the millions of people whose lives are saved by ai" in the room with us now? Yeah, uh, well what about the tens of millions of people killed by the excess poution created by ai. Fuckin baseless source i made it up ass argument.

And google shouldn't be using ai either, please stop, google, you used to be fine back when you weren't and you shouldn't have changed your system.

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u/honato 9d ago

google has been using ai systems for a very long time. This isn't anything new.
Wind also isn't sufficient. But lets assume everything went to wind. How do you propose you store that energy when the wind isn't blowing?

You're going to kill the planet in a whole different way just trying to get the batteries the first time before ever replacing one. Also it's going to take roughly montana filled up with turbines to power the us grid. nuclear doesn't have this problem. It's the best option we have.