The environmental impact of Bitcoin has been discussed at length over the past two years, but the latest trend, artificial intelligence (AI) software, is being criticized for its carbon footprint is becoming increasingly popular. According to several headlines and academic papers this year, AI consumes large amounts of electricity and utilizes large amounts of water to cool data centers.
Reports that AI and Chatgpt are consuming large amounts of electricity and water
In recent times, environmentalists have targeted a variety of technologies, and for the past 24 months there has been a big focus on bitcoin mining. Now, the insatiable effort to reduce carbon emissions has turned to the artificial intelligence (AI) trend sweeping the world, with innovative new software releases, including Openai’s Chatgpt program, there is no doubt that AI will be very much in the spotlight in 2023 It will be. However, several articles and academic papers claim that AI consumes large amounts of energy and has a large carbon footprint.
According to areportpublished by Bloomberg, “AI uses more energy than other forms of computing.” The article employs tactics used by members of the media to make it appear that machines are taking energy away from humans.” Training one (AI) model “could gobble up more electricity than 100 U.S. households use in a year,” claim Bloomberg authors Josh Saul and Dina Bass. The report further points out that while researchers have estimatedtotalamounts of energy to create AI models, there is no overall estimate of the total amount of electricity this technology will use.
Meanwhile, academic papersandpublished by students at the University of Colorado at Riverside and the University of Texas at Arlington claim that Chatgpt not only uses a lot of power, but also utilizes water to cool its data centers. The paper cites technology giant Microsoft’s use of large amounts of water to cool its U.S. AI facilities, which could be used for “370 BMWs and 320 Tesla electric cars.” The paper further claims that training for the GPT-3 model consumed 185,000 gallons of water.
Mark Labbe, author of techtarget.com,claimsthat “data centers and large AI models use large amounts of energy and are harmful to the environment.” anotherarticleon numenta.com also claims that AI is “harming the planet”and that the “data centers and large scale AI models use large amounts of energy and are harmful to the environment.” harming” the planet, and the author argues that this trend could accelerate the climate crisis if not addressed. Not everyone agrees with the research and alarmist headlines, as many believe the so-called climate crisis is a lie. For example, areportpublished by the Gatestone Institute
argues that climate alarmism is harmful to the West.
{Future generations will judge us harshly for weakening us through extreme environmentalism. He also states that “decomposing organic matter in the absence of oxygen (or in the intestines of herbivores and termites) produces methane. The reality is that we have come to believe that subjective evaluations and arbitrary opinions about what is good for the planet and what is bad for the planet should be investigated and regulated.
While Bitcoin offers economic freedom as a censorship-resistant currency, some argue that it must also address climate change concerns. Like Bitcoin, the environmental impact of artificial intelligence and rice farming is also under scrutiny. While many follow the rules and regulations set by climate change experts and bureaucrats, others haveopposing viewsand argue thatthe science is not settled.
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