AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
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AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).
Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:
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AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).
Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:
...this report would have far more power [IMO] if it quantified some things better: how many hard drives are thrown out per year, maybe compared among different types and scales of data centre (as one example)
Also if it's conclusions were something other than kind of vague inevitability. It loses a lot of impact with the whole "well these things are here" ending...
"asbestos is here so learn to breathe it better"
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AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).
Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:
@dw_innovation Why do people always make these useless comparisons? I don't want to compare it to Eiffel towers, I want to compare it with other industries.
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AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).
Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:
@dw_innovation where is an equivalent metric for communications technology generally?
Is it possible that this will be continuous? Or will the AI usage somehow fizzle out after all efficiencies are found?
Where is this heading?
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AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).
Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:
@dw_innovation How much is an Eiffel tower, I ask from France. Better would be to compare it to other waste situations like "the e-waste of a country like X / the e-waste of xy smartphones etc.
But the study is important because it adds to the impact by waste of electricity and drinking water. -
AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).
Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:
@dw_innovation @guyjantic
Eiffel towers? The French will do anything to avoid using Metric. -
@dw_innovation @guyjantic
Eiffel towers? The French will do anything to avoid using Metric.@FritzAdalis @dw_innovation That was my thought, too. Still not quite sure how Eiffel Towers accomplish their science communication goal, here.
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