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  • From water usage to electricity generation, AI data centres impact the climate. But exact estimates are difficult due to the lack of transparency.
  • - if everyone stopped using LLMs and went back to coding by hand, guess what happens

    - claude subscriptions stop selling

    - open AI subscriptions stop selling

    - both companies crash overnight

    - finances are pulled back from all data center projects

    - because obviously nobody wants to build something with no demand

    - but 99% of HN itself is filled with "I have stopped coding manually" people

    - and these are the same guys that ll on a different thread and cry about climate change

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