Caitlin Ratcliffe
@cpratcliffe.bsky.social
📚 Digital Literacy librarian | 🇨🇦 settler learning how to decolonize | ⚽️ fond of running around and kicking things | she/her
Reposted by Caitlin Ratcliffe
This Wash Post article (gift link) notes the costs in water (clean, drinkable water) & electricity that using a chatbot once a week for a year - by 1 person and also by 10% of US workforce == TOOOOOO high!! bit.ly/4gqFVyd
A bottle of water per email: the hidden environmental costs of using AI chatbots
AI needs a lot of electricity and water to stay cool in data centers. We break down the toll prompt-by-prompt to show the scale of AI’s environmental needs.
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September 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM
This Wash Post article (gift link) notes the costs in water (clean, drinkable water) & electricity that using a chatbot once a week for a year - by 1 person and also by 10% of US workforce == TOOOOOO high!! bit.ly/4gqFVyd
Would you accept rabbits instead? In many ways they’re just weird-looking cats 😂
December 16, 2023 at 8:34 PM
Would you accept rabbits instead? In many ways they’re just weird-looking cats 😂
Oh, I see! Thanks anyways!
December 6, 2023 at 7:03 PM
Oh, I see! Thanks anyways!
Ooh thanks for pulling this together! Can you add @capal-acbes.bsky.social ?
December 6, 2023 at 6:34 PM
Ooh thanks for pulling this together! Can you add @capal-acbes.bsky.social ?