[crote]

Sure, it's possible, but we don't seem to live in a world where that is actually the case in practice.

The large AI companies are perfectly happy to draw water to the point that local residents no longer have access to clean tap water, and they are perfectly happy using dirty "temporary" gas generators for power.

We should judge it for its actual use, not its ideal use.

[zahlman]

> We should judge it for its actual use, not its ideal use.

We should judge the companies for their actual behaviour.

We should judge technologies for their ideal application. Because they don't, in and of themselves, do anything.

Otherwise, you have the same basic fallacies that inhibit nuclear power.

[bruce511]

I agree. In the long run some AI providers will be "greener" than others.

Once AI becomes a commodity this is the sort of thing that will become a differentiating factor when consumers choose one over the other.