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Arrg! I didnt mean to delete what I wrote I was just trying to update it.

You confused energy use with pollution.

And what I wrote before was:

I basically said that I was serious, people if they cared would stop using computers. But I am not going to stop, you are not going to stop, so data centers are going to grow no matter what we do, and computing use is going to increase energy consumption. We need to (even says in the article you posted in the links) improve efficiency, get better hardware, use lower cost training models, use energy recovery and not use lossy evaporator cooling.

Edit: Arrrggg! I didnt mean to delete my comment I meant to add to it!

The point I was trying to make was that we are not going to quit using computers, AI or not. Data centers will continue to grow, AI will continue to be used because they are not going to quit either.

I said that before.

What I wanted to add: this is in agreement with several of the links in the article OP posted: more efficient algorithms, better hardware, regenerative water cooling instead of lossy evaporation.

The article suggests training on better models, heat recovery and re-use, even using AI to research better methods for processing and planning energy consumption for AI.

I was serious: we are unlikely to just throw out computers.