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The computing power for AI models requires immense \u2013 and increasing \u2013 amounts of natural resources. Legislation is required to prevent environmental crisis
\nOne of the most pernicious myths about digital technology is that it is somehow weightless or immaterial. Remember all that early talk about the \u201cpaperless\u201d office and \u201cfrictionless\u201d transactions? And of course, while our personal electronic devices do use some electricity, compared with the washing machine or the dishwasher, it\u2019s trivial.
\nBelief in this comforting story, however, might not survive an encounter with Kate Crawford\u2019s seminal book, Atlas of AI, or the striking Anatomy of an AI System graphic she composed with Vladan Joler. And it certainly wouldn\u2019t survive a visit to a datacentre \u2013 one of those enormous metallic sheds housing tens or even hundreds of thousands of servers humming away, consuming massive amounts of electricity and needing lots of water for their cooling systems. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The computing power for AI models requires immense \u2013 and increasing \u2013 amounts of natural resources. Legislation is required to prevent environmental crisis One of the most pernicious myths about digital technology is that it is somehow weightless or immaterial. Remember all that early talk about the \u201cpaperless\u201d office and \u201cfrictionless\u201d transactions? And of course, …<\/p>\n
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The computing power for AI models requires immense \u2013 and increasing \u2013 amounts of natural resources. Legislation is required to prevent environmental crisis