Tag: environmental implications

  • Slashdot: Hugging Face Researchers Warn AI-Generated Video Consumes Much More Power Than Expected

    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/09/27/0249201/hugging-face-researchers-warn-ai-generated-video-consumes-much-more-power-than-expected?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hugging Face Researchers Warn AI-Generated Video Consumes Much More Power Than Expected Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The findings from researchers at Hugging Face reveal that generative AI tools for text-to-video production have a significantly larger carbon footprint than expected. The study highlights a non-linear increase…

  • Scott Logic: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens

    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/09/09/reading-the-gentle-singularity-through-a-sustainability-lens.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Reading The Gentle Singularity Through a Sustainability Lens Feedly Summary: Sam Altman says AI will cost as little as electricity—but what’s the real environmental impact of billions of queries a day? In this post I dig into the numbers from the blog post “The Gentle Singularity" and compare…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Screaming in the Cloud: AI’s Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/screaming-in-the-cloud/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Screaming in the Cloud: AI’s Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You Feedly Summary: Screaming in the Cloud: AI’s Security Crisis: Why Your Assistant Might Betray You I recorded this podcast conversation with Corey Quinn a few weeks ago: On this episode of Screaming in the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/mistral-environmental-standard/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI Feedly Summary: Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI Mistral have released environmental impact numbers for their largest model, Mistral Large 2, in more detail than I have seen from any of the other large AI…

  • Slashdot: Tech Giants’ Indirect Emissions Rose 150% In Three Years

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/2154202/tech-giants-indirect-emissions-rose-150-in-three-years Source: Slashdot Title: Tech Giants’ Indirect Emissions Rose 150% In Three Years Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recent United Nations report highlighting the significant increase in indirect carbon emissions from leading AI-focused tech companies due to their energy-intensive data centers. As investments in AI grow,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Sam Altman

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/10/sam-altman/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Sam Altman Feedly Summary: (People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses; the average query uses about 0.34 watt-hours, about what an oven would use in a little over one second, or a high-efficiency lightbulb would use in a couple of minutes.…

  • Scott Logic: Bridging the AI Valley of Doubt

    Source URL: https://blog.scottlogic.com/2025/05/23/bridging-the-AI-valley-of-doubt.html Source: Scott Logic Title: Bridging the AI Valley of Doubt Feedly Summary: Despite the UK being the world’s third-largest AI industry, only 1 in 6 UK firms are actively using AI due to financial, skills, and risk concerns, but businesses can bridge this “valley of doubt" by adopting measured "AI in the…

  • The Register: AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/06/ai_spending_spree_continues_as/ Source: The Register Title: AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025 Feedly Summary: With those whopping returns who could argue with the premis… oh wait The AI datacenter spending splurge looks likely to continue in 2025, with Microsoft alone saying it will invest $80 billion this year on building…