Something I find fascinating when pointing out the climate issues of generative AI is how some people rush to interject that data centers are already a problem given the data storage required for media and streaming, and people haven't been objecting to that.
It seems they seriously are saying:
- since people haven't been aware and objecting (enough to be heard) *before* now, they shouldn't object now that they are aware…
- since there already is a huge climate issue with data centers we shouldn't care if that issue just keeps worsening…
So bizarre. You can't just accept the worsening of a situation by stating that the problem is already pretty bad. 🤪