• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    2 days ago

    You’re missing the point so hard it’s not even funny.

    The datacenters hosting the internet are not the same datacenters hosting AI.

    The ones hosting AI are the problem. Eliminate those, and the ones hosting the internet are fine (although could still convert to greener practices like on-site solar and closed-loop/greywater cooling systems, etc.).

    Eliminate the internet datacenters and the AI corps are still going to destroy the environment, you just won’t have access to wikipedia or the fediverse.

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      2 days ago

      yea no

      you wanna ignore what is actual reality and play pretend go for it but i’m not interested in hearing about it

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        2 days ago

        They were being nice, but since you insist on persisting in your willfull ignorance: you’re a fucking idiot who does not understand how the internet works nor how data centers are involved with it. Your straw man argument that 70% of the internet are bots is sourced by your ass, from whence you pulled it.

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        2 days ago

        I’m actually telling the facts and you’re the one being detached from reality, but normally people like you are “not interested in hearing about it” anyway, so I’m honestly not surprised you say that.

        I’m done arguing with you for the same reason I don’t debate climate change deniers.

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          2 days ago

          what facts?

          there are literally multiple reports on how the majority of internet traffic is bots

          what a strange hill to die on

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            2 days ago

            I never said anything about the relative proportion if internet traffic that is or isn’t bots. Does your only argument require a severe misrepresentation of what anyone else is saying?

            The fact is that the datacenters that have been rapidly accelerating the demise of the planet and its climate over the last 5-6 years are specifically AI datacenters. Getting rid of those, completely frivolous and unnecessary as they are, will go a long way to reducing the severity human-induced climate change.

            Getting rid of the datacenters that make the internet possible would be negligible compared to that. But I’m just restating what I’ve already said at this point, because you’re apparently either a troll or incapable of reading and understanding. Maybe both.

            Taking away the internet from the billions of humans who use it just because it’s flooded with bot traffic is a really stupid idea, when you could instead get rid of the datacenters that make the bots possible. The vast majority of compute operating these bots is happening at the bot-side of the internet, not at the datacenters running the internet. The actual amount of energy/compute used for that web traffic to travel from client to server is tiny compared to what’s consumed at the bot farms.

            What you’re proposing is more akin to tearing up the highways in order to prevent drug trafficking. It doesn’t solve the problem you’re pretending to want to address, it’s just a red herring that makes things worse for everyone else.