That would only be a problem if there were still rule of law in the US. If that were the case, they wouldn’t be able to run all those gas turbines either.

Yeah, but why AI-slop?

European data is an option too.

I guess the US will have to become more dependent on European earth and climate observation systems then, because a lot of industries actually need those. (unless they prefer other foreign services of course)

They want to cash out before the bubble implodes I guess. Let’s transfer the monopoly money to pension funds in time.

This reads like a list of “Teslaisms”. Many big car producers have figured out to ditch them again, after the hype. VW is far from the only but a good example. Have a look at the upcoming ID.Polo. Or look elsewhere, Renault R5 or Twingo for example. And it is not just Europeans, Hyundai Inster is similar in this regard.

The article sucks. That doesn’t change that most companies are still not even remotely cost controlling LLM usage like pretty much anyting else, nor that we even know what real costs, without billions in venture capital subsidies, would look like, other than substantially higher than now.

Before billions of people are starving to death though, I would imagine that as an emergency measure there would be massive shift from meat to grain production, which is multiple times more productive.

At least in the short term, if we get long term issues of that scale, things might be different.

Also when it becomes a matter of survival, market economics stop to matter. Then it becomes a question if a state can afford to close the financing gap or not. The EU is already subsidising agriculture for productiveness to secure regional food production for example. The mechanisms are already there, they just would have to be strengthened.

Diesel demand is currently falling in Europe as diesel cars are becoming obsolete. If saving fuel for agriculture becomes a priority, just push harder for EV transition.

Lastly, ammoniac can be produced from air, while that requires s lot of energy that does not have to come from fossil sources. Also, just shit down all those useless ai data centers during a state of energency to secure energy for fertiliser production.

Sounds like legalised theft to me, strictly limited against the es poorest in society.

You might have a point but I’d like to add, that this view is not just shared by some random 3D printing advocate. It is shared by the SFC as well and they should know their license, I would think. Anyhow, Bambulab is now under their watch. Also the SFC is launching a reverse engineering project on Bambulab AGPL3 software. If Bambulab doesn’t like it, it can try to sue the SFC. Good luck.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/

Like I said, it counts almost double. Aviation makes up 4% of the impact when 90% of the global population isn’t even flying in a year. Traveler numbers are tiny compared to other modes yet it causes a 4% chunk.

Aviation is outright terrible in its impact compared to rail, on corridors where both are an option. Of course, for many travels, only aviation is in option. That is a reality but doesn’t make aviation any better.

I switched las month from GPT-OSS-120B to Gemma4 31B. For some simple scripts I found the latter considerably mor efficient, less verbose and with better results. At the same time the sycophancy is much worse.

No way I’ll use cloud based models and feed the data base. But also local models clearly like to burn energy.

But the benchmarks are semi useless. Performance at new problems in your precise use case matter and that’s only something one can find out you using it. This can differ wildly from what benchmarks suggest. AI can be an ability enhancer when for example someone who has no idea hos to code suddenly manages to create crappy code but that manages to do a job where for example success can be easily verified. But if the result should ve good or even reliable … well…

The reason why aviation emissions are so bad is not so much the amount but where exactly they are emitted.

The equivalent of dinosaurs are mammals, not humans. But the biomass of humans isn’t really the issue, resource consumption and pollution are. Even if we transition to 100% renewable energies, which we have to sooner or later, unless civilization collapses before fossile fuel runs out, we rely on countless finite resources. The more people the more of a problem that becomes.

Agriculture is part of this issue, a lot of it is currently running on depleting soil snd much of the yield multiplier is coming from oil (fertilizer and fuel). Just because in recent time agriculture performance could keep up with population explosion, doesn’t mean this will be the case forever, especiall as car centric utban planning eats up fertile land at an excelerating rate and usable land for agriculture is already pretty much maxed out.

Providing everyone with a good live just gets harder with every billion more in the planet as resources are finite and exponential progress can’g go on forever.

Of course it does. Nothing screams “freedom” like systematic mass surveillance of all movements of all US Americans and data aggregation/analysis in real time. I am sure they are also really excited about the rising surveillance companies doing that with door dash cams and whatnot.

Is it just me or does reality start to leak through occasionally now even in mainstream financial media?

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Turns out moving magnetic fields against each other is damn efficient and hard to beat.

I am late to the party. What’s wrong with boiling water? That said, my favourite power plants don’t do it: photovoltaic, wind power and hydropower (though wet).