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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI

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Google's AI-powered search summaries use 10x more energy than a standard Google search | The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

The Hidden Environmental Impact of AI

While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulators have fallen asleep on the job in curtailing AI data centers’ drain on energy and water resources.

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If only Google had a working search engine before AI
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  Yes, but now we can get much worse results and three pages of ads for ten times the energy cost. Capitalism at its finest.

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