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.
  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    7 hours ago

    I appreciate that they make the key point that AI is definitely here to stay. It’s not about stopping it, it’s about dealing with the fallout of the switch. To do that we need solid data.

  • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    12 hours ago

    Good to know. Doesn’t help that the current administration in the USA is actively hostile to renewable energy, which would offset this problem significantly if we hurried up and built out renewables at a much faster rate.

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
      3·
      9 hours ago

      This would also create employment, to which the current regime is also actively hostile.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    8·
    11 hours ago

    tl;dr: It’s alarmingly large and rapidly growing.

    I wonder where all the money is coming from. It’s got to run out at some point.