It should be illegal to build that much fossil fuel powerplants to just train LLMs.

The platant disregard of global warming by AI investors is truly repulsive.

Keep in mind that the industrial processes that consume fossil fuel also contribute to quality of life in various ways. Improvements in emergency response and early detection infrastructure alone have resulted in deaths from extreme weather events reaching record low levels. Poverty as a whole has seen record-breaking decreases over the last 30 years.

So there are other factors to weigh besides how much contributes to CO2 emissions.