 “AI’s Electricity Use Is Spiking So Fast It’ll Soon Use as Much Power as an Entire Country” Between this and crypto, the tech industry’s innovations seem to be doing a good job of nullifying whatever progress we make on the climate crisis. https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-electricity-use-spiking-power-entire-country?utm_source=social&utm_medium=bluesky&utm_campaign=manual 7 comments
@baldur And enormous quantities of water. I saw articles about how server farms in drought stricken areas were wasting far more water than anticipated, for cooling. It's not just electricity. These server farms also require water. @baldur https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2023/09/ai-development-poses-threat-to-our-water-supplies/ So that my toot is not just hot air. @baldur https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/ai-development-requires-large-amounts-of-water/7265493.html And a second article. I won't post anymore articles.  @baldur That's OK, they'll just cry for more oil drilling and government welfare.  @baldur the entire edifice is embedded in an economics that has no recognition of the problem. Sure, it talks about it. But it’s… a kind of net zero of concern @baldur So glad we will stop destroying the Earth for cryptocurrencies and nfts in time to destroy the Earth for unnecessary language models. |
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@baldur the worst side of so called AI.