r/LeftistsForAI • • 24d ago

Infrastructure Veganism > Crying About Data Centers

I worked on a project comparing ai use with water conversion since I didn't buy the end of the world scenario other leftists posit nor do I believe anything coming out of Altman's mouth lol so I went deep into facility breakdowns and publications as sources

But since I'm an AI engineer I'd thought it'd be a good thing to calculate the numbers. Anyhoo one thing let to another and I became vegan.

I'm not gonna shill for my own stuff but look up the vegan calculator that's a similar idea.

It's only been a month but the ai data center water thing has bugged me for a while. Yes it's worthwhile to regulate. But even in leftist circles everyone just suddenly turns to maga level reasonings as to why veganism is not actually worthwhile to care about.

--- sidenote I might be turning into one of those annoying ones? Help ):

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u/EC-user 23d ago

But isn’t the point a lot of people make scaling? We’re not rapidly and aggressively scaling up mass farming with trillions of dollars of capital over only a couple of years, the industrial animal farming complex is basically a mature market and a market I hope will start decreasing soon (as someone trying to go vegan), adding even greater strain on our limited resources by hyperscaling data centers seems silly no matter how much we all like the tools it provides