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کامران امان:

افغانستان ستر پرمختګونه په مخکې لري په نږدې وخت کې به سیمې ستر هېوادونه افغانستان په رسمیت وپیژني.

د افغانستان لوړ بیه کانونه او خاورې به استخراج شي چې نړۍ او سیمه ورته اړتیا لري.

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Source: Siyaq | سیاق (@SiyaqCasts)
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Press Release: Rising #Emissions, Depleting #Water and Vanishing #Land—UN Scientists: #AI Is Threatening #NaturalResources for Billions

By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns

Date Published
3 Jun 2026

Excerpt: "Inference, efficiency, and the rebound effect

"Public discussion has largely focused on the energy required to train massive models. Training GPT-3 was estimated to require 1.3 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity, while estimates suggest GPT-4 consumed between 50 and 70 GWh. However, the report reveals this framing is outdated. Once a model is deployed, inference—the continuous running of models to answer everyday user prompts—becomes the dominant cost, accounting for 80 to 90 per cent of total #AI energy use. ChatGPT alone is estimated to process around 2.5 billion prompts per day, translating to roughly 383 GWh of electricity per year for a single product. Offsetting associated carbon emissions would require 2.6 million tree seedlings grown for 10 years, enough trees to cover a land area the size of Manhattan. The water footprint is equivalent to the minimum annual domestic water needs of roughly 500,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the land footprint is equal to over 800 football fields."

Read more:
https://unu.edu/inweh/news/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-use-carbon-water-and-land-footprints

#AIBoom #Electricity #Hyperscale #BigTech #BigData #CarbonFootprint #EnvironmentalRacism #EnvironmentalDegradation #NoisePollution #LightPollution #WaterIsLife #AIAgents #BotTraffic #GreenSpaces #Farmland #Prairies #Woodland #TechGiants #ProtectNature #NoDatacenters #EnergyConsumption #USPol #WorldPol #Datacentres
#DatacenterMoratoriums #ArtificialIntelligence

“#Heatwaves , #droughts and #floods , land degradation, species #extinction and #pollution all undermine human well-being. Any measure of #sustainability must assess and account for changes in #naturalresources . Destroying them to manufacture goods and produce services will hamper, not boost, growth and prosperity” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01299-w

Here in the US, policy makers are locked into zero sum thinking. All that matters in their eyes is unhampered endless growth (measured by nationally by #GDP) and compound interest. This is the house that Milton Friedman’s market fundamentalism built.

You don’t have to be an expert to look around and see that this perspective is driving the interrelated polycrises going on in the world today. Any hope of change requires a break from that mentality. Unfortunately, far too many people profit from the status quo.

Short term thinking is an existential crisis for humanity.

Un tableau périodique des éléments différent ...

Le tableau périodique des éléments suivant montre la finitude des réserves naturelles d'éléments importants.

#minetosh #geology #geologie #cartoon #umwelt #environment #humour #humor #klima #climate #ClimateChange #klimawandel #wissenschaft #géologie #environnement #climat #ChangementClimatique #science #klimaschutz #ClimateProtection #ProtectionClimat #chemie #chemistry #chimie #elemente #elements #éléments #nachhaltigkeit #sustainability #durabilité #RessourcesNaturelles #NaturalResources

A somewhat different periodic table of the elements ...

The following periodic table of the elements shows the finiteness of the natural reserves of important elements.

#minetosh #geology #geologie #cartoon #umwelt #environment #humour #humor #klima #climate #ClimateChange #klimawandel #wissenschaft #géologie #environnement #climat #ChangementClimatique #science #klimaschutz #ClimateProtection #ProtectionClimat #chemie #chemistry #chimie #elemente #elements #éléments #nachhaltigkeit #sustainability #durabilité #RessourcesNaturelles #NaturalResources