• Rambomst@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I have kind of just been using ChatGPT 4o as my search engine, it’s been working pretty well.

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        4 months ago

        Completely terrible. An AI “search” takes as much electricity as hundreds to thousands of normal searches.

        'AI" is TERRIBLE for climate change because they’re increasing demand for electricity so much that they’re keeping coal plants going that were even scheduled for decomissioning because they use A LOT of power.

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          4 months ago

          This can be resolved by building the data centers to cold countries like here in Finland. Servers are very good at converting electricity to heat, and the heat can be used to heat homes.

          Microsoft Azure data center in Espoo is going to heat up 60% of the city’s district heating network.

          Also the electricity here in Finland is one of the cleanest, like in all Nordics (hydro, wind, nuclear)

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            The electricity would be better spent on heat pumps. Computers convert 100% of their electricity into heat. Heat pumps convert 200-400% of their electricity into heat.

            (I’m being lose with my wording for brevity’s sake)