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The ideas that deep learning is meaningfully contributing to CO2 emissions seems dubious to me. Lots of data centers are powered by renewables. Furthermore I think advances in AI are probably critical to climate adaptation. “Turn off the computers to save the planet” strikes me as Luddite-ism.

We need to be switching off coal fired power plants not computers.




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