Three findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate crisis:
🌿 Majority of AI energy use (80-90%) is not in training models, but in day-to-day use.
🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse.
🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon.
https://unu.edu/inweh/news/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-use-carbon-water-and-land-footprints
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