With all the hype around AI, not many people are talking about how this is impacting on the environment, power consumption and water usage (for cooling)

We need to start having these conversations

• AI's Growing Footprint: How Data Centers Could Trigger 1,300 Deaths Annually by 2030—What Tech Leaders Must Do Now – EUROPE SAYS
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Generative AI is hailed by many as the future, being able to use Artificial Intelligence to generate content. All the talk fails to take in to account what is needed to power the computers or computer farms to generate this content.

The article here from Earth.org on this very issue.

We really do need to decide on our future, the power required is huge as is the amount of water required to cool these systems. It is hardly sustainable, but it seems profit is far more important.

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