Concerned about resource usage of AI? Stop eating beef NOW.

submitted by hamid to vegan 56 points | 28 comments To feed your food preferences: AI: ~560–800 Billion Liters Annual usage Beef: ~4,387 Trillion Liters (for feed alone) AI: Minimal land use Beef: 44% of global habitable land AI: ~20,400 tons CO2 (per large model) Beef: ~14.5% of all global emissions AI: Electronic waste, local heat islands Beef: Methane, manure runoff, “dead zones” A single quarter-pound beef burger requires between 40 and 70 gallons of surface/groundwater A heavy AI user (50 queries/day for a year) consumes roughly 14 to 48 gallons of water annually Beef driven industrial agriculture is the #1 driver of global deforestation. In the Amazon, cattle ranching is responsible for at least 75% of forest loss. This is causing ecological collapse. All this to torture cows. Fucking stop it. Stop it NOW.