British government asks people to delete old emails to reduce data centres' water use
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
A single modern AI GPU consumes up to 3.7 MWh of power per year — GPUs sold last year alone consumed more power than 1.3 million homes
Are we going to run out of electricity to power our data-driven future?
khobochka (@khobochka@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image #LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional. #ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such. https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163