Tag: environmental implications
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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…
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AlgorithmWatch: Fighting the Power Deficiency: The AI Energy Crisis
Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/explainer-ai-energy-consumption/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: Fighting the Power Deficiency: The AI Energy Crisis Feedly Summary: Is AI contributing to solving the climate crisis or to making it worse? Either way, the increase in AI applications goes hand in hand with the need for additional data centers, for which energy resources are currently lacking. AI…
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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…
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The Register: How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/how_datacenters_use_water/ Source: The Register Title: How datacenters use water and why kicking the habit is nearly impossible Feedly Summary: If they’re not consuming H2O directly, the power plant almost certainly is Feature The explosive growth of datacenters that followed ChatGPT’s debut in 2022 has shone a spotlight on the environmental impact of these…
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Hacker News: Controlling AI’s Growing Energy Needs
Source URL: https://cacm.acm.org/news/controlling-ais-growing-energy-needs/ Source: Hacker News Title: Controlling AI’s Growing Energy Needs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The provided text highlights the significant energy demands associated with training large AI models, particularly large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT-3. It discusses the exponential growth in energy consumption for AI model training, the…