People like to pillory others for looking at the environmental impacts of AI, and a lot of the points brought up (big one, water use) are bogus.
However, Zeke Hausfather is a gold standard guy when it comes to climate science
Re: energy use and the environment, AGENTIC AI use is a hugely costly use of the tech. I encourage you to read the breakdown. He covers his own use of admittedly extensive use of Claude, as well- so he’s not just an anti-AI guy with a bone to pick
I really encourage reading this one through.
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I always wondered where they thought all that water ended up. Like, do your LLM queries come back soggy, because mine don’t.
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People like to pillory others for looking at the environmental impacts of AI, and a lot of the points brought up (big one, water use) are bogus.
However, Zeke Hausfather is a gold standard guy when it comes to climate science
Re: energy use and the environment, AGENTIC AI use is a hugely costly use of the tech. I encourage you to read the breakdown. He covers his own use of admittedly extensive use of Claude, as well- so he’s not just an anti-AI guy with a bone to pick
I really encourage reading this one through.
I always wondered where they thought all that water ended up. Like, do your LLM queries come back soggy, because mine don’t.