Mann kann, in Theorie, über Nachhaltigkeit von Digitalisierung sprechen wenn alle Ressourcen wie

Material

Energie

Wasser / Kühlmittel

und alle Aspekte, Nebenwirkungen und "collaterals" der

Produktion

Betrieb

Abfallbewirtschaftung

berücksichtigt sind.

Nachhaltigkeit von was ? Von Umwelt? Von biologischen Vielfalt ? Von etablierten Institutionen ? Von "status quo" ? Von nicht-nachhaltigen Strukturen und Praktiken (z.B. unbegrenzte Wachstum im begrenzten Raum ?)

"There are a handful of firms with 20k+ A/H100 GPUs, and individual researchers can access 100s or 1,000s of GPUs for pet projects. The chief among these are researchers at OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Inflection, X, and Meta, who will have the highest ratios of compute resources to researchers. A few of the firms above as well as multiple Chinese firms will 100k+ by the end of next year...."

(Patel & Nishball, 2023, Google Gemini Eats The World)

"Permacomputing is both a concept and a community of practice oriented around issues of resilience and regenerativity in computer and network technology inspired by permaculture.

In a time where computing epitomizes industrial waste, permacomputing encourages the maximizing of hardware lifespans, minimizing energy use and focussing on the use of already available computational resources. We do this we want to find out how we can practice good relations with the Earth by learning from ecological systems to leverage and re-center existing technologies and practices..."

permacomputing.net