• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Your article doesn’t even claim that. Do you have any idea just how carbon intensive a flight is?

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      5 days ago

      I imagine people making that claim accept air travel as useful and “AI”, really, all datacenters as not useful. I’ve had people tell me oh, air travel is more efficient per mile that road travel. But this ignores that people wouldn’t drive thousands of miles if it was not as easy as booking a flight.

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          3 days ago

          As of July 2025, approximately 424 Boeing 747 aircraft are in active airline service

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            2 days ago

            …and I take it they burn three hundred thousand litres to run the Atlantic as well?

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              46 minutes ago

              Yes they do. A big part of it is their size / capacity. Per passenger or per kg cargo they’re pretty efficient, but that doesn’t change the fact that they burn ~280,000 liters on a typical (Washington D.C. to Frankfurt) Atlantic crossing round trip.

              Yes, overstated - it’s a two way Atlantic crossing. And if you consider Newfoundland to Ireland to be “an Atlantic crossing” that certainly uses less, and it’s rounded up a bit - though with unfavorable wind conditions it can exceed 300,000 liters.

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                44 minutes ago

                Also, be careful what you believe when you ask AI a question - what’s wrong with this answer? "A Boeing 747 burns roughly 18,000 to 24,000 gallons of fuel for the Miami to Frankfurt flight, which is about 36,000 to 50,000 liters. "