AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).
Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:
...this report would have far more power [IMO] if it quantified some things better: how many hard drives are thrown out per year, maybe compared among different types and scales of data centre (as one example)
Also if it's conclusions were something other than kind of vague inevitability. It loses a lot of impact with the whole "well these things are here" ending...
"asbestos is here so learn to breathe it better"
@dw_innovation where is an equivalent metric for communications technology generally?
Is it possible that this will be continuous? Or will the AI usage somehow fizzle out after all efficiencies are found?
Where is this heading?
Esteban B
DW Innovation
Dr. needs a living wage
Erwin Rossen 🔸
DCKIM [toronto tech blog]
Petra van Cronenburg
Fritz Adalis
Proto Himbo European