BenjaminHCCarr, to ai
@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io avatar

As booms, land near becomes hot
Cheap low-carbon energy? What's not to love...
All are energy-hungry but with more watt-greedy AI workloads on the horizon, nuclear power has fresh appeal, especially for .
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/25/ai_boom_nuclear/

marleenstikker, to random Dutch
@marleenstikker@waag.social avatar

“The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud

Anthropologist Steven Gonzalez Monserrate draws on five years of research and ethnographic fieldwork in server farms to illustrate some of the diverse environmental impacts of data storage. “ https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-staggering-ecological-impacts-of-computation-and-the-cloud/

CEDO,
@CEDO@mastodon.nl avatar

@melle @marleenstikker Je kunt aandacht aan 'digitale geletterdheid' geven tot je een ons weegt, zolang scholen volledig afhankelijk zijn van twee grote Amerikaanse cloudbedrijven ( of ) en alle leerlingen hier verplicht in moeten werken, zal er niets verbeteren.

cazabon, to ai

Lots of reports about how operators/ are working on huge because of the sudden demand for model-building (and to a lesser extent, inference usage). i.e.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/18/hyperscale_datacenter_capacity/

That one suggests capacity will triple over the next 6 years. Triple!

Easy : in 2 or 3 years, when many companies realize "AI" isn't helping them much, they'll cut back. All that spare capacity makes plummet...

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