Im not sure I follow. AI barely consumes energy compared to other industries and instead of focusing on the heavy hitters first wasting time on the climate impact on AI doesn’t seem useful

> AI is one of the causes that climate change is accelerating, which is another in a long list of reasons to hate it.

If you want to point at causes of climate change, look no further than adtech. It's the driving force behind our overconsumption.

And it has perhaps an even longer list of reasons to hate it.

People sure don't care about it anymore and it coincided with rise of AI. There's barely any mention of climate change compared to 5+ years ago. I really think this is all about how to keep the capitalist system from imploding because of so much debt (so the next big thing needs to happen to keep the growth).

Seeing this kind of populist misinformation/bikeshedding on HN is particularly disappointing.

The EPA repealed its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

So this is not a good reason to oppose AI. Now the sheer energy it requires does mean we might want to go nuclear though.

Natural gas is nice though because it does pollute the air far less than coal.

You might argue the EPA only repealed that because of political agendas, but the same argument could be made for why it was passed.

A lot of people got very rich off the fear mongering from climate alarmists.