Hi Ludo', On Thu, May 7, 2026 at 4:53 AM Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Greg, > > Greg Hogan <[email protected]> skribis: > > > LLMs use a tiny fraction of resources required for a build, and by > > reducing builds are even eco-friendly. > > It’s not build farms that lead to drought in Chile, to the reopening of > the Three Mile Island power plant; it’s not build farms that compete > with humans for the consumption of clean water. > > If it’s provocation, please refrain from doing it; if not, please do > your homework. It’s crucial so we can have a healthy discussion.
My claim was AI could make _this project_ more resource efficient. I don't know what is going on in Chile, although if this is in reference to Santiago, which looks to be about 20 kilometers from the great ocean, not regulating to death our single source of clean, renewable energy would have been helpful 50 years ago. How could anyone think that turning those power plants back on is a bad thing? And of course it it's not datacenters causing the drought which started long before ChatGPT, but rather agriculture and climate change: "by 2022, forestry—representing 3% of the nation's gross domestic product—consumed 59% of Chile's water, agriculture used 37% and only 2% was allocated for human consumption" [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_water_crisis
