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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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[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 82 points 1 month ago

When I think "AI will end humanity" I was thinking a sort of Skynet type deal, not... this. Sigh.

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

I mean, global warming us slowly into extinction is a pretty AI way to go about it

[-] ampersandcastles@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Oh, this isn't it. Capitalists have been doing this long before AI. Which is why I don't understand why people are attacking AI so hard, tbh.

[-] msage@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

It's just a proxy hate.

Just like crypto before that.

Or any other crazy bullshit the elite drops bags of money on instead of anything reasonable.

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