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What does it mean for AI to be democratic?
Some pushback on a specific fuzzy idea with some ominous implications
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A plug for a tool I made to show how little most current AI chatbots add to your emissions and water use, with citations
Take this and share it, you don't need to mention me
Jun 11
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A simple trick to fix the data center debate
Remove the status quo bias by asking "would we spend this much in tax revenue to avoid the externalities of the data center?"
Jun 6
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Why I think panic about local impacts of data centers is just a panic
A request for counter examples
Jun 4
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I think I figured out exactly how the “AI uses a bottle of water per prompt” miscalculation happened
Looks like it's roughly 50-250x too high
May 25
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A history of the data center panic - part 1
Pre-ChatGPT and the creation of common wisdom
May 20
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A crash course on US air pollution
Data centers and air pollution - part 1
May 19
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Let's not compare data center heat exhaust to nuclear bombs
Why dropping hundreds of nuclear bombs on Washington DC every day is pretty normal
May 11
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Data center land use issues are fake
We have plenty of land, data centers provide more revenue per unit area than any other building, and we should have way less farmland
May 2
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To be clear, I do understand how sound works
Replying to a criticism of my last post
Apr 24
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