Artificial Intelligence
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Generative AI and Climate Change Are on a Collision Course
From energy to resources, data centers have grown too greedy.In reality, AI’s current “bigger is better” paradigm—epitomized by tech companies’ pursuit of ever bigger, more powerful large language models that are presented as the solution to every problem—comes with very significant costs to the environment. These range from generating colossal amounts of energy to power the data centers that run tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney to the millions of gallons of freshwater that are pumped through these data centers to make sure they don’t overheat and the tons of rare earth metals needed to build the hardware they contain.
Data centers already use 2 percent of electricity globally. In countries like Ireland, that figure goes up to one-fifth of the electricity generated,
- why do they burn europe and india and asia? the centers are in the US
https://i.haasie.com…uan - and the AI industry will change in the coming decades. the brute force compute approach of current llms will be replaced by small resource models.uan
- america is already burned down ...only ash anymore... coming decades sounds a little too late... except u get seat on elmos rocket...neverscared
- imagine they replace the a.i hype with carbon capture technology urgency.. or at least equal it... but i guess not.. people are way to morbid for that...neverscared
- and greedy....not that a.i isnt important for fight against climate change... but making a few bucks is def. more important than 3°C by 2030...neverscared
- No one was asking for generative AI.ApeRobot
- why do they burn europe and india and asia? the centers are in the US