zirk.us is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Literature, philosophy, film, music, culture, politics, history, architecture: join the circus of the arts and humanities! For readers, writers, academics or anyone wanting to follow the conversation.

Administered by:

Server stats:

765
active users

Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Meanwhile in Ireland...

the cost in energy of the data centres used to run the 'cloud' and increasingly powering artificial intelligence exceeds that of all Ireland's urban housing.

Might be time to pause & wonder exactly what is the point of AI?

In the end I think I'd rather have a chance to mitigate the climate crisis than a search engine that makes up its answers.....

theguardian.com/world/article/

The Guardian · Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combinedBy Jillian Ambrose