"Our AI product may destroy humanity!!11" is OpenAI's odd go-to advertisement. Among other things, it's a great way of making real harms seem comparatively small. Now they're deploying the same strategy for their energy usage
Contributing, as always, to the very real destruction of the earth
Just announced: OpenAI plans to lease a 9.2 gigawatt 100% fossil-fuelled data centre on Ohio.
Its emissions will be between 20 - 37 MTCO2-e - somewhere between the total grid emissions of France -> Netherlands
As much GHGs as 9.5 average coal plants. Will raise US total emissions by 0.5%
