In a study published on Monday by the peer-reviewed journal Patterns, data scientist Alex de Vries-Gao estimated the carbon emissions from electricity used by AI at between 33 million and 80 million metric tons.
That higher figure would put it above last year’s totals for Chile (78m tons), Czechia (78m tons), Romania (71m tons), and New York City (48m tons, including both CO2 and other greenhouse gases).
The servers are thirsty.
Me too, but I pee the water. You know?
Have you considered not peeing, so that hustlebros can set up a Python script to feed popular art tags into an image generator, so they can have a passive income through Patreon?
cool the data centers with piss, ingenious!
and then they can make gun powder with the leftovers so they can fight their war within.