Cory Doctorow on Nostr: AI is just normal. The bubble is what drives the environmental costs. If the only ...

AI is just normal. The bubble is what drives the environmental costs. If the only LLMs were a couple big data-centers at Sandia National Labs, no one would be particularly exercised about the water and energy demands they represented. Big scientific endeavors - from NASA launches to the large Hadron Collider - often come with immense material and energy needs. The bubble causes massive, wasteful, duplicative efforts that chase diminishing returns through farcical scale.

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