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		x86x87 on Feb 3, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation ... That's fine. If the proposal is to reexamine and change the way our society works in order to avoid the tragedy of the commons that's great. If the proposal is to arbitrarily ban something we don't like or understand that's a problem. How about the amount of power a datacenter uses? What about all this "AI" - the hardware used for training the models is very power hungry?

MattRix on Feb 4, 2024 [–]

Yes, sure, we can look at things on a case-by-case basis. It’s pretty easy to look at something like bitcoin and see that inefficiency is the purpose rather than the byproduct, and then make regulations about that.

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