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A Empire State Building (lemmy.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by VitoRobles@lemmy.today to c/anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de
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https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/937356/ai-data-center-gpu-environmental-impact

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[-] Wxfisch@piefed.world 9 points 1 month ago

This is infuriatingly stupid, the whole point of using things like “longer than 4 football fields” is that most people at least have a solid idea how big a football field is so have a frame of reference, but who the hell understands the weight of the Empire State Building?!? That is just such a useless frame of reference. Height sure, volume maybe, but weight or mass is just stupidly useless for something like a building.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The problem with such big numbers is that it's very hard to reference them usefully at all.

I guess a percentage of all e-Waste would have been better, and that as a percentage of all waste.
Also, in the USA or globally? And why until 2030? (I'm guessing the article provides context)

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Not paywalled in EU.

Archived, unfortunately without the above image, also they need to work on making the frame smaller: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/eUcNb

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