Your regular reminder that AI (yes, including your fun art generators and silly ChatGPT questions and Google search) use more power than whole countries, and are speeding up climate change and the destruction of the environment.

Let's definitely replace people with this poor quality, surveillance state, ecocidal nonsense.

inequality.org/article/ais-ene…

#AI #generativeAI #AIArt #chatgpt

AI’s Energy Demands Are Fueling the Climate Crisis - Inequality.org

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence systems is precipitating an environmentally problematic spike in data center construction.

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