I’ve recently realized that essentially all opinion pieces about the energy/carbon/capital/resource impact of AI invariably spend thousands of words on napkin math figures based on shaky assumptions on how models and data centers work, all to come up with some bottom line number…
And then they invariably throw it away and conclude one of the following: either no cost is worthwhile since AI is valueless, or no cost is too high since AI’s potential is infinite. Why not dispense with the bad math?
Daniel Spiewak
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