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Do you think anything should be done about this environmental impact?

Or should we just keep chugging along as though there is no problem at all?

>>jennyh+(OP)
I think we should continue to find ways to serve this stuff more efficiently - already a big focus of the AI labs because they like making money, and reduced energy bills = more profitable inference.

I also think we should use tax policy to provide financial incentives to reduce the environmental impact - tax breaks for renewables, tax hikes for fossil fuel powered data centers, that kind of thing.