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Eric Schmidt: ‘We’re not going to hit the climate goals. I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem.’ With "alien intelligence"! (pivot-to-ai.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well the main problem is that a datacenter is running much more than just AI. You'd need to somehow subtract "normal" cloud usage from just the promptfondling.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

ez. remember that announcement when ms said their energy use got up 36%? that's ai, and includes both training and use

this still can be fudged with more efficient office heating, shutdowns of least efficient dcs and so on, but only to a limited degree