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Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers (www.techradar.com)

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A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.

The extra demand from GenAI will reportedly lead to a rise in emissions from 200 million tons this year to 600 million tons by 2030, thanks largely to the construction of more data centers to keep up with the demand for cloud services.

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[-] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

There exists an alternative that uses a lot less power. And also that power is going to get spent no matter what anyway.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

and also that power is going to get spent no matter what anyway

Yeah but it leads to higher bills for consumers, and generators can get spun down, and it's keeping fossil fuel plants open, etc.

[-] ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

The alternative I was talking about are called employee brains.

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