Is AI More Sustainable if You Generate it Underwater?

AI information centers are truthful blistery close now. Each clip generative AI services churn done their ample connection models to marque a chatbot reply 1 of your questions, it takes a large woody of processing powerfulness to sift done each that data. Doing truthful tin usage monolithic amounts of energy, which means the proliferation of AI is raising questions astir however sustainable this tech really is and however it affects the ecosystems astir it. Some companies deliberation they person a solution: moving those information centers underwater, wherever they tin usage the surrounding seawater to chill and amended power the somesthesia of the hard moving GPUs inside. But it turns retired conscionable plopping thing into the water isn't ever a foolproof program for reducing its biology impact.

This week connected Gadget Lab, WIRED writers Paresh Dave and Reece Rogers articulation the amusement to speech astir their reporting connected underwater information centers and however the contention to powerfulness AI systems is taking its toll connected the environment.

Show Notes

Read Paresh and Reece’s story astir the plan to enactment an underwater information halfway successful the San Francisco Bay. Read Reece’s stories astir however this is AI’s hyper-consumption era and however to wade done each the AI hype. Read Lauren’s communicative astir the societal web inhabited lone by bots. Read Karen Hao’s communicative successful The Atlantic astir however companies similar Microsoft are taking h2o from the desert to usage for cooling down AI information centers. Here’s the Black Cat substack article astir the quality Harper from Industry. Follow each of WIRED’s AI and climate coverage.

Recommendations

Paresh recommends checking retired cookbooks from your section library. Reece recommends the soundtrack of the archetypal Twilight movie for each your Fall feels. Lauren recommends the HBO amusement Industry. Mike recommends Anna Weiner’s profile of bicycle decorator Grant Peterson successful The New Yorker.

Reece Rogers tin beryllium recovered connected societal media @thiccreese. Paresh Dave is @peard33. Lauren Goode is @LaurenGoode. Michael Calore is @snackfight@heads.social. Bling the main hotline astatine @GadgetLab. The amusement is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our taxable euphony is by Solar Keys.

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