The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI
jacobin.com
While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulators have fallen asleep on the job in curtailing AI data centers’ drain on energy and water resources.
  • @just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18•9 months ago

    To be fair, it was never “hidden” since all the top 5 decided that GPU was the way to go with this monetization.

    Guess who is waiting on the other side of this idiocy with a solution? AMD with cheap FPGA that will do all this work at 10x the speed and similar energy reduction. At a massive fraction of the cost and hassle for cloud providers.