one assessment suggests that ChatGPT, the chatbot created by OpenAI in San Francisco, California, is already consuming the energy of 33,000 homes. It’s estimated that a search driven by generative AI uses four to five times the energy of a conventional web search. Within years, large AI systems are likely to need as much energy as entire nations.
Lots of people give a shit, they’re just not in any sort of position to do anything about it.
We won’t treat climate change seriously until we get a significant climate related mass casualty event in North America.