AI's enormous energy appetite can be curbed, but only through lateral thinking
How much harm does AI cause the environment? As a report from the MIT Technology Review just confirmed, nobody knows, and almost nobody cares enough to try and find out. Even if lots of people did care a lot, it wouldn’t change things. The driver of AI’s insane energy addiction is no more amenable to argument than a labrador in possession of an entire roast chicken.
There’s an arms race on, and arms races only end in three ways. One side runs out of money, both sides hit an inescapable parity, or the race becomes irrelevant. Nobody’s building better castles any more.
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