AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
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’.
Is AI Art Sustainable?
A trio of specialists discusses how artists can respond to the environmental cost of generative AI with Diane Drubay
We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.
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
1M AI Images = Water for 2,000 People. Still Worth the Likes? - OnFocus
1M AI Images = Water for 2,000 People. Still Worth the Likes? The Viral Trend with a Hidden Cost Social media is awash with AI-generated Studio Ghibli
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?
On the (im)possibility of sustainable artificial intelligence
Why it does not make sense to move faster when heading the wrong way.
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
As lithium mining bleeds Atacama salt flat dry, Indigenous communities hit back
You could be forgiven for thinking there’s no water in the Atacama Desert. In fact, the driest desert on Earth has underground springs that feed the Chaxa, Cejar and Tebenquiche lagoons, as well as other bodies of water, providing oases for various animals such as flamingos and extremophiles. It’s said that the ancestors of the […]
Why We Don’t Know AI's True Water Footprint
Miranda Gabbott asks, by choosing AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in Spain jeopardize their water tomorrow?