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Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers (www.techradar.com)

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A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

AI apologists: But AI helps my to write mundane scripts so it's useful and the enormous energy usage is justified!

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