Susan Pickford @libripotens.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Interesting! It strikes me also that the human energy cost is pretty incompressible (unless we take drastic measures 💀) and the humans not used for translation would just use the same energy on other office tasks, whereas AI energy use is an add-on. 110
Harriet Cooper @hmflowerpot.bsky.social · 17/10/2025You'd have thought they'd have weighed those sorts of things up in the report... but instead they focused on how often translators boil kettles and their office block costs, while deciding it was too difficult to factor in the energy usage of AI data centres. 000
