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91f54ec6 | 1 years ago (raw) | export | reply | flag 
 Bitcoin’s power-hungry history offers lessons for AI’s future

A single AI query may have a carbon footprint four times that of a Google search. How to reduce it?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2023/09/27/world/ai-bitcoin-energy-carbon-footprint/
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Maletic Research | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @357cdba8 And it is irrelevant, carbon footprint is nonsense. For all aspects of our life and work we should thrive for the cheapest and most abundant (free market principles say these two come together) energy supply. That would make AI cheap too and that is the important part.