cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/9281063
Title comes from the article version of this newsletter
Probably less bad than Bitcoin and other crypto.
How Bad Is A.I. for the Climate? Tech giants are building power-hungry data centers to run their artificial intelligence tools. The costs of that demand surge are becoming clearer.
Submitted 6 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
DKKHGGGj@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
And maybe not entirely negative outcomes
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Less then non ai humans…
HaywardT@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I wonder how much energy is used for doom scrolling.
muffedtrims@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t think flicking my thumb takes much energy.
GreatTitEnthusiast@mander.xyz 6 months ago
It doesn’t take much but it is actually quantifiable!
dislocate_expansion@reddthat.com 6 months ago
I love how people are just now realizing that more computers will require more energy and resources. But let’s add AI and track the shit out of everything and have each website to have a dozen servers to even look coherent, and put AI in cameras, cars and our toilets so we can look closer as we use up all our resources
To even write this, I’m using multiple servers and the text is for sure being data mined for AI/data science/whatever’s next so I’m adding to the problem by complaining
Okay, that’s enough internet for me today. I hope you’re all doing well
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Your account has the bot flag enabled. Did you set that intentionally?