Cass (they/them) on Nostr: AI becoming ubiquitous is not environmentally sustainable. *All* other arguments ...
AI becoming ubiquitous is not environmentally sustainable. *All* other arguments about AI are, at best, secondary to that. Do you think Texas’s rickety-ass power grid can handle the amount of current called for? Do you think PG&E’s infrastructure in California, which already causes fucking wildfires, can handle it?
Bloomberg article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/Published at
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