"A company that adopts generative AI for something where they used to use more traditional optimization methods is probably using 10 to 20 times more carbon to do that, so if improvements aren't made, you're talking doubling or more in a five-year period in terms of the carbon footprint of the information technology that we do."
Big data centers that places like OpenAI are planning to build are gigawatt-scale data centers. That is as much energy as medium-sized cities.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/sustainable-computing-in-the-new-world-of-ai
Gerry McGovern /
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