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Training and running AI models generates lots of heat inside data centers and power plants. Those facilities are typically cooled with the same freshwater used by people, pets and crops.

Developing and using AI systems like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini requires lots of electricity. Generating that energy, in turn, is leading to lots of additional carbon emissions

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This is the first time the carbon emissions caused by using an AI model for different tasks have been calculated.

Tech companies have been reporting whatever they choose, however they choose, about their AI impact a great deal remains unrevealed about the millions of gallons of water used to cool computers running AI...... The same is true of carbon. Undark, BY DAVID BERREBY, 02.20.2024 AI runs on power-hungry equipment that uses millions of gallons of fresh…

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It’s “an accelerant for everything,” potentially including climate change.

As the environmental costs of tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E mount, governments are demanding more clarity from tech companies.

Generative artificial intelligence uses massive amounts of energy for computation and data storage and billions of gallons of water to cool the equipment at data centers. Now, legislators and regulators — in the U.S. and the EU — are starting to demand accountability.