| ▲ | retired 15 hours ago | |||||||
Needing less offices, less people driving to those offices, less A/C and heating for those offices and less resources building those offices could offset the energy usage of AI. | ||||||||
| ▲ | calgoo 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
We can just turn all the office buildings into datacenters, they already look like heating vents! cover them in solar panels on the outside to cover the windows, and done! | ||||||||
| ▲ | cortesoft 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
The people still need to be somewhere, so while commuting could be reduced I am not sure about heating/cooling usage. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | neonstatic 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Remote work accomplishes all that as Covid days proved. | ||||||||