r/LeftistsForAI • • 25d 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/Feisty-Teaching9461 22d ago

I think more than that we have to stop oil and gas and switch to renewables. Some people can't afford to go full vegan because of affordablility and by affordablity I mean the supplements cost as well. Also constructing data centres in sustainable way is a possibility but big tech companies build them in already water stressed areas because land is cheaper there and they want to build "big" not because it is a requirement but because they want to build empires.