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1. Christoph Becker (cbecker@hci.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 16:09:39 JST Christoph Becker

   I'm glad to see that the environmental impact of AI remains in the news this month... a few links here 🧵

   https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/ai-environment-primer is a neat recent introduction to the subject.

   #AI #generativeAI #climate

   • Christoph Becker (cbecker@hci.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 16:09:38 JST Christoph Becker

     in reply to

     Generative AI is a disaster for the climate - keep that in mind when you are tempted to use it.

     https://www.techradar.com/pro/generative-ai-triples-the-carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-data-centers

   • Christoph Becker (cbecker@hci.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 16:09:39 JST Christoph Becker

     in reply to

     Emissions from in-house data centers of Google, Microsoft, Meta and Apple may be 7.62 times higher than official tally

     https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech

     Surprised? Of course not. Good to see this reporting.

     Aral Balkan repeated this.