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504 points Terretta | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.523s | source
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Shakahs ◴[29 Aug 25 19:59 UTC] No.45068700[source]▶
Grok are the first models I am boycotting on purely environmental grounds. They built their datacenter without sufficient local power supply and have been illegally powering it with unpermitted gas turbine generators until that capacity gets built, to the significant detriment of the local population.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/elon-musk-xai-gas...

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mrcwinn ◴[29 Aug 25 21:04 UTC] No.45069367[source]▶
By his own words, Elon is not an environmentalist and doesn’t seem to believe much in humanity’s impact on the climate. His concern is with the futility of relying on a non-renewable resource. He believes there is significantly more lithium than there is oil, I guess.

In the end, incentives are all that matter. Do hotels care deeply about the environment, or are they interested in saving in energy and labor costs as your towel is cleaned? Does it matter? Does moralizing really get us anywhere if our ends are the same?

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1. Havoc ◴[29 Aug 25 21:44 UTC] No.45069749[source]▶
>doesn’t seem to believe much in humanity’s impact on the climate

Is it that or a belief that we can outrun the problem? i.e. mix of accelerationism and making humanity multi planetary

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2. tw04 ◴[29 Aug 25 22:30 UTC] No.45070138[source]▶
You do, and then at some point, likely during a late night ketamine binge, he went full redpill on twitter and decided the only thing that matters is “owning the libs”.

If that means embracing fossil fuels, so be it. Destroy the “woke mind virus at any cost”. That being said, I think he is delusional enough that he thought allowing nazi propaganda on twitter would convince conservatives to start buying teslas and is completely lost at this point.