"All those generative AI tools are incredibly computationally intensive, which means they require a lot of dedicated hardware within massive hyperscale data centers owned by the cloud oligopoly, and all that computing power requires a immense amount of water and electricity to keep it running. As Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have dropped billions of dollars every few weeks on new communities around the world for new data center projects."
https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/
Gerry McGovern /
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