#AI could help win ‘race against #extinction’ of vital #plants, say botanists | Plants | The Guardian
The headline mentions plants but the article is also about #Fungi, which aren’t plants.
@mkwadee Bullshit advertising article that only handwaves at the social costs of LLMs. How can we save plants from extinction and accelerate climate change at the same time? I'm very disappointed in #TheGuardian for this one-sided take.
@lwriemen I know people have big concerns about the amount of water consumed by data centres but at the risk of seeming to be contrary, there is this:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/when-it-comes-to-total-water-use-ai-data-centers-are-a-drop-in-the-bucket/
It's the local effects that need to be carefully considered but globally, not so much.
