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504 points Terretta | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 13:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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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rikafurude21 ◴[29 Aug 25 21:53 UTC] No.45069856[source]▶
If thats the yard stick you should boycott everything coming out of china, which is pretty much everything, since they are one of the largest polluters globally.
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zzzoom ◴[29 Aug 25 22:32 UTC] No.45070161[source]▶
Not even close

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita

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maleldil ◴[29 Aug 25 22:49 UTC] No.45070283[source]▶
That's per-capita. China is by far the biggest polluter overall, and it is still increasing.

https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/co2?country=CHN~USA~IND...

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1. argsnd ◴[29 Aug 25 22:52 UTC] No.45070298[source]▶
Doesn't really make sense in my opinion. Why boycott a specific group of people for their collective emissions when their individual emissions are lower than many others? The latter is the important metric, else you're simply punishing them for having a large population.