As the AI industry booms, what toll will it take on the environment?
by Maanvi Singh from Technology | The Guardian on (#6C3YH)
Tech companies remain secretive over the amount of energy and water it takes to train their complex programs and models
One question that ChatGPT can't quite answer: how much energy do you consume?
As an AI language model, I don't have a physical presence or directly consume energy," it'll say, or: The energy consumption associated with my operations is primarily related to the servers and infrastructure used to host and run the model."
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