[dosinga]

900k is a large plane flying from Dallas to Sydney and back

[amirhirsch]

What if the goal of writing about how “AI is bad for the environment” (because of the energy and water it uses) is to identify gullible people and on-ramp them into a lifetime of media manipulation?

[dahart]

OTOH, what if the goal of downplaying the environmental risks is to try to make people gullible and stop caring and spend more of their money now and ignore the consequences, as industrialization has been doing for a couple of centuries?

[cluckindan]

No, that would be closer to 2,000 tons of co2 emissions.

So 450 large planes flying that route.

[infecto]

For some reason that math does not seem correct.

[simianwords]

The real math is that it is equivalent to ~3000 - 5000 10 hour flights.

[entuno]

I don't know how much a fully laden "large plane" weighs, but it's nowhere near 450,000 tons. Which means that the claim it releases 450,000 tons of CO2 on a single flight is clearly bollocks.

[simianwords]

incorrect. It is 900k tonnes so multiply your estimate by 1000.