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Robert Ferry

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Shouldn’t kg of CO2 per unit of revenue be going down if data centers are getting more efficient? Somehow tech is burning more carbon for every dollar earned? Is this all because of AI and because AI doesn’t contribute to revenue? Not great all around.

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Matt Casey's avatar Matt Casey @mattcasey.bsky.social
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Yes I think your theory is correct. In addition to high per-query costs there are high fixed costs of training models in the first place. And the use cases don't justify the investment ("yet")

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