[Yawrehto]

>And if you're worried about the energy usage of crypto, wait until you hear about this AI thing...

Both of them are stupid energy/water sucking machines. I'm kind of curious how much emissions would fall if we just outlawed crypto, AI, and private jets, because those seem like three large things that don't particularly matter to normal people.

[ativzzz]

> three large things that don't particularly matter to normal people.

According to google searches, chatGPT has something 100-200 million people using it monthly. IDK how accurate that is, but even if it's off by a magnitude, that is something that is clearly useful to normal people

[kixxauth]

Yeah, it's appropriately ironic that these things were supposed to give power to the people (excluding the private jets), but power has become consolidated to those who have the means to consolidate it ... and the climate pays.