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[โ€“] ClimateStalin@hexbear.net 58 points 4 days ago (38 children)

Okay not just AI but in general most business uses should be lowest on the electricity priority list

Before telling people to raise their AC to relieve pressure on the power grid, AI data centers should be shut down, most offices should be closed and powered down, etc.

The very last electric appliances to be turned off should be residential AC units. Basically everything else should go before those.

[โ€“] balsoft@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (37 children)

The very last electric appliances to be turned off should be residential AC units

I don't think a mostly for-comfort utility should be the last to shut down. There is a lot of significantly more important shit, like hospitals, water treatment plants and pumping stations, coolers and freezers which are storing food, public transit, etc.

After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years, but surviving without running water or safe food is much more difficult.

Even some datacenters can be more important, e.g. those predicting the weather or handling communications.

And if AC is necessary for survival in a place, then maybe we shouldn't fuckin' settle there (or at least shouldn't cover the entire place with asphalt and concrete). What happens during a real blackout? Does everyone just die?

[โ€“] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 49 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

After all, our species has survived without AC for hundreds of thousands of years

survivorship

Other things our species survived without for hundreds of thousands of years include water purification, cancer treatment, obstetrics, antibiotics, sterile medical instruments, and agriculture.

[โ€“] balsoft@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My point is that way more humans can survive a couple weeks without AC than a couple weeks without water or food.

[โ€“] SirQuack@feddit.nl 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can survive years without AI though

[โ€“] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Oh yeah, AI in its current form can fuck right off.

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