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Microsoft, already one of the biggest polluters because of AI, saw its 2023 emissions grow 30% from 2020
Microsoft is desperately looking for cleaner and less polluting ways to power its AI data centres. For one of its biggest AI centres that it will be developing with OpenAI and invest $100 bn in, Microsoft plans to set up a dedicated nuclear power plant to power it
Microsoft’s carbon footprint keeps growing as AI drives data center expansions
Microsoft's Thermal Energy Center at its Redmond, Wash. headquarters. The center taps geothermal energy from the earth to provide clean power. (Microsoft
Find out how illegal miners in the Amazon use Elon Musk's internet to evade surveillance | Brasil de Fato
Illegal mining area in the Uraricoera River, within the Yanomami Indigenous Land
Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news
The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation
We gotta stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem
AI might be cool, but it’s also a big fat liar.
Thomas Le Bonniec on LinkedIn: ChatGPT will be able to talk to you like Scarlett Johansson in Her
How long do you think it is going to take until OpenAI is hit with the exact same scandal as all “vocal assistant” manufacturers (Besides all of the obvious…
Gerry McGovern on LinkedIn: How to stop a data center
Big Tech doesn't want anyone to know how much water it's using in its data centers. “When it comes to Google, what’s really striking is the lack of…
AI Bots Are Taking Over the Job Application Process. Everyone Is Losing.
It’s bot versus bot on the hiring front lines, as job hunters turn to new tools to counter the AI that’s screening their applications
CEO: ‘AI’ Power Drain Could Cause Data Centers To Run Out Of Power Within Two Years
By now it’s been made fairly clear that the bedazzling wonderment that is “AI” doesn’t come cheap. Story after story have highlighted how the technology consumes massive amo…
AI is already deceiving us, scientists find
Scientists are concerned developments in Artificial intelligence could have unintended and severe consequences for human society
Stack Overflow and OpenAI agree to use each other
Microsoft-backed super-lab gets access to answers – and code forum gets its own AI
Don't be evil. (Don't be brittle.)
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
What Clean Energy Supporters Need to Know About AI
Artificial intelligence consumes a lot of energy, but history suggests that with concerted effort by industry and government, it won’t wreck the electric grid, or cause calamitous amounts of carbon
EU AI Act Compliance Journey
The climate cost of your digital life
How worried should we be about the cloud?
‘Hype and Magical Thinking’: The AI Healthcare Boom Is Here
Big Tech is bringing AI into the health care industry, but medical machine models carry risks to privacy and patient safety.
Canada isn’t taking the escalating environmental impact of AI seriously
The US is considering stringent data centre rules to keep AI's impact on water, land and carbon in check. But the recent Liberal budget was silent on the environmental elephant in the room.
The AI bitcoin scams
The ravenous trumpian appetite of AI requires an “energy breakthrough,” according to AI guru, Sam ‘Boomer Doomer’ Altman, as he peddles to the gullible greedy his very latest pet side project, nuclear fusion, while also promoting his $7 trillion—yes, $7 trillion!—investment opportunity which proudly has no business case other than, Beli...
Artist Rights are Human Rights
The human rights of artists is a different concept from intellectual property rights, such as copyright. Intellectual property rights are…
Enabling the multidimensional energy transition with data and AI - Microsoft Industry Blogs
At Microsoft, our mission to empower every individual and organization on the planet is complemented by our sustainability commitments. Learn more.
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Indigenous leaders decry lack of consent for nuclear waste on their homelands
‘We’ll lose everything if the mines come’
IRENE Leonor Flores de Callata, 68, treks along a bone-dry riverbed, guiding a herd of llamas and sheep through stretching desert.
The dark side of AI: Its growing environmental footprint
A study by Yale says, “One consequence of the explosion of artificial intelligence is clear: this technology’s environmental footprint is large and growing.”
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States rethink data centers as ‘electricity hogs’ strain the grid • Stateline
Lawmakers in several states are rethinking massive subsidies they've offered to lure data centers, as the costs balloon and they consider how to cope with the growing electricity demand.
It’s the End of the Web as We Know It
A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.
ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct it
noyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA