The computer itself? Safe! The dangerous AI XANA? Absolutely would destroy the climate. Literally was overcharging a power cylinder thing in order to send a powerful enough charge to a nuclear power plant in order to cause nuclear fallout in one episode.
Cray (the company) often had interesting designs that probably ended up influencing a lot of sci-fi. CDC (control data corporation) had interesting designs as well, prior to that, and Cray (the person) worked there before founding his own company.
One other supercomputer line with iconic looks is Connection Machines which are IMO some of the coolest looking computers ever made.
The whole climate impact of AI is overstated a million times over. You can run a perfectly capable, GPT 4o destroying LLM on your own GPU right now. What is the difference between jonkling to vidya gaems or running an LLM for doing something productive for a fucking change?
The servers running the network you posted this shit over , the servers used to develop your favorite Gacha coom game, the servers used to deliver your shit ass Xitter feed, or your Netflix garbage, use more power than AI and LLMs are actually actively more productive than that shit
You can run a fully fletched LLM at home but you can't train the model. The latter is a huge contributor to power consumption. Running it is peanuts in comparison.
That is a one time cost. Do you add the cost of every single watt of electricity ever generated, the cost of making factories, extracting materials and so on, to the "climate impact" of electrical rail service or EVs?
This is just hysteria, I'm going to be absolutely deadass with you
Also, you theoretically could make an LLM entirely on your own PC, it'd just take a bit of time
Weirdly enough then that OpenAI is losing money on every querry, they lose money on every paid subscription and are on track to lose billions this year.
I was trying to find the most boring data center picture I could ok, sooo many of them seem to have been taken with a lot of "artistic license" and hyped up LMAO