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@mickmccrory8534
February 13, 2026 at 11:03 am
Thrunp wants us to have cars that burn coal
@highergoodstudio
February 13, 2026 at 11:04 am
Love this
@claudiacosta6790
February 13, 2026 at 11:07 am
Traduzir
@TheUpwardbound1
February 13, 2026 at 11:09 am
Love brothers like this destroying stereotypes! Propaganda has the world thinking we are ignorant clowns when he is the norm in the black race. Billions sre soent keeping us in the state we are in really to the detriment to all Americans!
@keshmild
February 13, 2026 at 11:28 am
All the Anti-AI bots gonna be summoned as usual 🙄
@meanderinoranges
February 13, 2026 at 11:39 am
Um, the bots ARE AI. 🤦
@Aaaaaa006
February 13, 2026 at 4:26 pm
@meanderinoranges unfortunately these are flesh and bone people behaving like automata 😔
@meanderinoranges
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 am
Last I checked, AI was using tons of energy. Like orders of magnitude more than a Google search. But you do you, dude.
@Jasonxbr
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 pm
Absolutely 💯 true- not only electricity use but the amount of water its consumed to cool the data centers, not including the noise its emits and the pollution from extraction of those resources and shipping it as well deployment and maintenance if their isn’t issues that runoff can leak from inside and contaminated the soil, wildlife, ground water, nearby residents. 😢😢😢😢😢 but hey I agreed you do you. 😂😂😂
@keshmild
February 13, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Meat and gasoline production both use orders of magnitude more water than data centers. Much better to focus on reducing consumption of those over AI
@Jasonxbr
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 pm
@keshmildfair assessment- we humans finds ways to polluted the planet by others means of clean energy 😢😢😢
@scottjarol
February 14, 2026 at 2:48 am
@Jasonxbr Agreed. These impacts are significant, but not more than existing sources of environmental damage. Is this an excuse? Not at all. However, as we build more clean energy systems, mostly wind and solar at this point, and geothermal emerging, energy will not be the issue anymore. Cooling water is recycled so water consumption is an overstated issue. Data centers, as you say, use a fraction of the water required by animal agriculture and fossil fuel production. A pound of beef requires about 2000 gallons of water–yes two thousand! Humans like beef, so we pretend that’s not a problem. We don’t all understand AI , so we point the finger at something we don’t believe affects us directly. It’s selective outrage, and unfortunately these biases prohibit the discourse we need to find real solutions to very real and immediate problems.
@Jasonxbr
February 14, 2026 at 11:07 am
@scottjarolin the end Ai is just another useless tool for the tech elites to become even richer. The world was running fine before Ai so this is more or less a boom in the early tech days just like 3D tv , cloud gaming- single drop of blood test etc 😂😂😂😂😂
@jareduxr
February 13, 2026 at 11:48 am
Should we look at what “when’s the biggest party” Elon’s data center is doing? 2 million gallons of water daily and methane generators. But maybe someday it will help says market hype.
@OmegaMikePL
February 13, 2026 at 12:30 pm
“…thinks we need AI to make that same kind of creative leap for climate solutions”. If you pull the plug, will that be creative?
@contrary6480
February 13, 2026 at 12:37 pm
No.
@DigitalWraith
February 13, 2026 at 12:40 pm
Remember the question @6:45.
He didn’t answer it. He basically said, as the interviewer brought up, “let’s hope it works.”
We need specifics. What are your doing to prevent A.I. tech giants from being as predatory and corrupt as they currently are? What checks are you putting on them to prevent them from causing more environmental harm, both in reality and online? In no small part, A.I. is why we have the orangutan in office. It’s due to the fact propaganda and fake news online has no laws with teeth being implemented or exercised. A.I. is a tool that can be used for good or ill. And right now, the only people that are held accountable online are the poor and middle-class.
@IhabBenhalima
February 13, 2026 at 12:41 pm
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@IhabBenhalima
February 13, 2026 at 12:45 pm
Free El Fasher people 🇸🇩
@IhabBenhalima
February 13, 2026 at 12:50 pm
Free Uyghur Muslims ☝️
@Jasonxbr
February 13, 2026 at 12:56 pm
I guess the main point is that Ai isn’t the saving grace that you think it is for😢😢😢😢😢 humanity is banking on to get us out of our predicament.
@jzjsf
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 pm
This is some choreographed nonsense. Zero useful takeaway.
@joeldheath
February 13, 2026 at 5:00 pm
Alpha Go is not the same type of AI as what is being pushed. It would go a long way to making people less pessimistic if this would be acknowledged. Narrow-focus specialized AI tool are much more interesting and promising than “it can do anything” LLMs.
@AdityaMehendale
February 13, 2026 at 5:17 pm
“Cooling at chip level is less burdunsome (*) than cooling at datacenter-level” 9:25 – How does that work? Repeat after me: A joule is a joule is a joule is a joule.
@robertcarter3234
February 14, 2026 at 10:56 am
It works the same as agriculture with water usage. Put water directly at the seed and don’t waste water just making some soil wet nearby. In the same thought process don’t cool the air of the data centre, cool the chip
@AdityaMehendale
February 14, 2026 at 2:23 pm
@robertcarter3234 Think before you make claims, please. The GPU gets hot. It takes some power over some time. Power * time = energy. Almost 100% of the energy eaten by the GPU is converted to heat. 1 joule is 1 joule. No matter how “focused” or “broad” your cooling is, it takes EXACTLY as much water to transport-away a joule of heat. It is ABSOLUTELY not the same as with agriculture – the biggest issue there is evaporation of water that the plants cannot use.
@BrianMcInnis87
February 13, 2026 at 6:48 pm
Mr. Gore’s been a force for good in climate for decades.
@Bigmoondig
February 13, 2026 at 7:02 pm
Our climate crisis community knows what a tipping point is and knows there is no going back. Trump is a tipping point. AI is a tipping point. There is no going back. There is no clear path forward. You pay your money and you takes your chance. 🎉
@rsnstg6744
February 13, 2026 at 7:34 pm
Why do people — well, I mean — leave so many angry comments whenever someone gives a lecture on the topic of AI?
@ema4770
February 14, 2026 at 12:53 am
Im the only one noticing that hes a robot how he moves and hang gesture ? Is like he memorized all this talk with someone doing the choreography, he do so many hand gesture explanations that seems all studied in all detail.
@menchezdravkova
February 14, 2026 at 1:38 am
These anti ai conspiracy theorists reminds me of the dark ages. It happens everytime in history when there is something that can brings us knowledge. People want to be ignorant since from the beginning of times
@ГульнизаМайрамбекова
February 14, 2026 at 3:26 am
Just incredible
@marcquentel3306
February 14, 2026 at 5:38 am
Claiming that AI could improve the fight against climate deregulation ? All of this through a foundation funded by one of the planet’s biggest polluters, is absolutely staggering.
What is simply Bezos’ carbon footprint (yacht, airplane, rocket, etc.)?
What is the carbon footprint of his companies?
This TED is a tycoon’s green washing.
@senazava8529
February 14, 2026 at 6:02 am
I guess it’s better to ask AI a right question, it’s not just “how to save our planet?” But “how to maintain proper condition of the planet for human live?”
@monnanidle
February 14, 2026 at 10:59 pm
Enough with the climate change videos already.