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The visualization of the data, while interesting and informative, is created by pooping out a shitload more carbon. So it's like Leo using a private jet to fly to COP to tell everyone to fly less.
Aside from Googles claims that they’re carbon neutral and only use/purchase renewable, how much carbon is this going to create?
Yeah, Google aint carbon neutral. Carbon credits are fake. You can't pay another country to add your emissions to theirs and say that you're neutral. That's greenwashing. Good question though about the carbon emissions. I don't have any data to draw on, but it would be some kind of function of how many PCs/server racks are responsible for processing the data.
They'll need to start consuming all that extra electricity to power LLMs to analyze climate change data🤔