The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data centers is predicted to explode over the next few years.

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    1 day ago

    Sigh… wasting power, wasting nand chips, hard drives and for what? Aiding climate change.

    But at least we can have a hallucinating chatbot.

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      7 hours ago

      Yeah, it’s so much more efficient and climate friendly to have people in offices managing data with paper instead of computers.

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      No bro llms are good bro they’re so efficient bro trust me.

      I need 10 trilllion more bro and it’ll be so good i promise.