New analysis: #AI #chatbots like OpenAI's #ChatGPT and #Google 's #Bard consume an astronomical amount of #electricity and #water — or, more precisely, the massive #dataCenters that power them do. By 2027, these server farms could use anywhere between 85 to 134 terawatt hours of #energy per year, 0.5 percent of the entire globe's energy demands." https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-electricity-use-spiking-power-entire-country #climateCrisis #ressources #greed #LLM
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No way! That's more energy than Bitcoin uses! There should be a law that prohibits Ai! 😱 /s
That bloody mastadon bridge always displays the craziness over there. I'm assuming there is a modicum of sanity now and then on Mastadon...surely...