For a long time I’ve been writing about the environmental impacts of data centers— what can I read to better understand how that extends to LLM and AI more specifically? #enviro #environmentalmedia #datacenters #LLM #AI
@mel_hogan Oh, that’s interesting. Can you point to your writing about that? Thanks!
@pjorge yes melhogan.com has a bunch of links but also check out this open biblio with folks working on critical data center studies! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bnbDNTXlpddbfuShMgRKWvWLFIKUKBchUkluMMOVRkw/edit
Critical Data Center Studies

Critical AI [infrastructure and the environment] Bridle, James Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence Farrar, Straus and Giroux (June 21, 2022) Crawford, Kate Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Yale Univer...

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@mel_hogan That’s great. Thanks a lot!

I’ll dive into that

@mel_hogan Oh, what a great resource. I will keep me busy for a while 😀

Thanks again!