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[โ€“] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 58 points 1 week ago (38 children)

Okay not just AI but in general most business uses should be lowest on the electricity priority list

Before telling people to raise their AC to relieve pressure on the power grid, AI data centers should be shut down, most offices should be closed and powered down, etc.

The very last electric appliances to be turned off should be residential AC units. Basically everything else should go before those.

[โ€“] balsoft@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (37 children)

The very last electric appliances to be turned off should be residential AC units

I don't think a mostly for-comfort utility should be the last to shut down. There is a lot of significantly more important shit, like hospitals, water treatment plants and pumping stations, coolers and freezers which are storing food, public transit, etc.

After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years, but surviving without running water or safe food is much more difficult.

Even some datacenters can be more important, e.g. those predicting the weather or handling communications.

And if AC is necessary for survival in a place, then maybe we shouldn't fuckin' settle there (or at least shouldn't cover the entire place with asphalt and concrete). What happens during a real blackout? Does everyone just die?

[โ€“] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years,

What's climate change

[โ€“] balsoft@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The human species has lived through an era when the average temperature on Earth was about the same as it is now. It's true that (very) soon it won't be the case (it looks like the climate is truly fucked and we'll get the hottest year since humans evolved in a decade or so, and then shoot right past that and into real hell on earth territory).

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