11th-earl-of-blah.bsky.social
Educator, software developer and all-round geek, music fanatic (prog, art rock, electronica & more), interested in democracy and green issues. @pythoneer@cyberplace.social on Mastodon. https://bandcamp.com/11th-earl-of-blah
👤 Joined on 02 September 2024
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@11th-earl-of-mar.bsky.social@11th-earl-of-mar.bsky.social → @11th-earl-of-blah.bsky.socialThere is no plan to the growth of generative AI: it's all a furious, mad, frenzied scrabble for energy. Think Bitcoin, not cruise ships. GenAI is always fundamentally constrained by energy. So additional sources of any kind *never* displace fossil fuel use; they just enable more consumption.
Show PostInteresting thought here - but I think counter to Kevin's thread, 3 is more of a concern than 2 Desperation is the keyword for the data centre buildout: unlocking more clean wouldn't reduce the gas buildout. The additional clean would just be used to enable greater total consumption.
Show Post@chrischirp.bsky.social has tracked attacks of Trump's government on science and universities. She's now giving a talk that's as insightful as it's worrying: how vulnerable are science and its institutions elsewhere? What lessons must we learn? #ESCLiverpool
Show Post@andyburnham.bsky.social This makes a complete nonsense of opening up Jackdaw and Rosebank There is simply not one single reason why this would be a good thing NO MORE NORTH SEA OIL AND GAS www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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