AI is a scam on our environment
"Besides requiring huge quantities of fresh water to keep data centres cool, when powered by non-renewable energy sources, artificial intelligence also releases significant amounts of carbon emissions. Each individual use of genAI to answer a question or produce an image comes at an incredible cost to the planet; with the technology spreading at unprecedented pace around the world, its environmental footprint is only destined to increase."
https://earth.org/generative-ai-is-exhausting-the-power-grid/
Gerry McGovern /
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2024-08-05 09:41:20
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