Posted 3/7/2024, 12:02:00 PM
AI's Energy and Climate Impacts Come Under Scrutiny
- AI's growing electricity demands from data centers will cause an 80% increase in emissions, even with efficiency measures
- In 3 years, AI servers could be consuming as much energy as the country of Sweden
- Training AI systems like ChatGPT uses huge amounts of energy, equal to 120 US households per year
- AI will accelerate the spread of climate misinformation and falsehoods about climate science
- There should be more transparency about AI's energy use and safeguards against climate misinformation spread