If you recall history past the last 5 minutes, you will remember that people have indeed been enraged with the environmental costs of things for a long time. Its just that AI seems to have induced a mass amnesia, and people tend to forget about what happened pre 2024.

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rs_rs_rs_rs_rs a day ago | parent [-]

> you will remember that people have indeed been enraged with the environmental costs of things for a long time

Yeah? Show me the big movements against computer gaming.

	▲	lbrito a day ago \| parent [-]
		There are movements against consumerism and the environmental impacts of industry in general. Greenpeace is over half a century old. The differences with AI are: 1) we are starting off (mid 2020s) from a baseline point of already being in a hopelessly shitty situation, past the 1.5C warming target; and 2) Electronics, chips, data centers etc were already a thing for a long time, but industry took _decades_ to ramp up production to pre-AI levels, and these things are used everywhere for a huge number of things. Now we're consuming electronics/data centers/water/power at an unheard-of rate, and for a single purpose (AI) with questionable benefits, besides the private interests of a handful of people.