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#GenerativeAI and #ClimateChange Are on a Collision Course

"[AI's} very significant costs to the environment range from generating colossal amounts of energy to power the data centers that run tools such as ChatGPT and Midjourney to the millions of gallons of freshwater that are pumped through these data centers to make sure they don’t overheat and the tons of rare earth metals needed to build the hardware they contain.

What we really need is more transparency."

https://www.wired.com/story/true-cost-generative-ai-data-centers-energy/