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Since 2017, electricity consumption at the biggest AI makers has soared:
186% at Google
186% at Microsoft
367% at Meta
The reason: AI.

@a_w_gordon examines the electrical costs of AI in the first episode of our YouTube series on the climate impacts of AI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFd0QUOUFUg

As @a_w_gordon writes: “Tech companies seem to be treating the climate impact of AI like they’re shopping in a store that has no price tags with a credit card in someone else’s name. And they’re not showing us the receipts.”

https://www.proofnews.org/ais-carbon-footprint-how-ai-is-killing-climate-goals/

Our educated guess of the CO2 costs of AI is definitely an underestimate - it is based on pioneering 2022 research by @SashaMTL Sylvain Viguier & Anne-Laure Ligozat.

The real climate costs of newer, bigger AI models is likely much higher.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.02001

What is the carbon cost of using an AI bot? The companies stopped disclosing it in 2022.

In the latest installment in our series on the climate costs of AI, we estimate a year of ChatGPT use may emit the same amount of CO2 as driving 2 million miles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yekAtc4eT78

How accurately do leading AI models respond to questions about Black history? @MrCrim3 gives them a "C."
https://www.proofnews.org/tiktok-teacher-ernest-crim-iii-gives-ai-models-a-c-in-black-history/

Why AI watermarking won’t save us and why you might need a “safe word” with your loved ones to help them know if they are talking to you or an AI voice clone. An interview with AI policy expert Irene Solaiman in this week’s @proofnews newsletter.

https://www.proofnews.org/ai-watermarking-is-not-going-to-save-us/