Eric Worrall essay
“… Plans for decommissioning several coal -fired power plants were delayed … 20 percent of global power consumption by 2030.”
AI is bad for the environment and the problem is greater than energy consumption
Published: January 30, 2025 2.43 a.m. AEDT
Hamish van der Ven
Assistance professor for sustainable corporate management of Natural Resources, University of British Columbia
Artificial intelligence technologies such as chatbots attract a growing test for their insatiable energy requirements. However, energy consumption is only part of their broader environmental impacts.
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At the end of last year, Chatgpt, the popular AI chat bot from Openai, celebrated his second birthday. In its short existence, the platform has collected over 300 million weekly users who send about a billion messages to the chat bot a day.
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Elsewhere in the technology, other companies marked fewer hearty milestones. Alphabet – the parent company of Google – recently announced that greenhouse gas emissions have risen by 48 percent since 2019. At the same time, Microsoft announced that emissions have risen by 29 percent since 2020.
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The burgeoning AI industry needs so much electricity that the decommissioning of several coal -fired power plants has delayed. According to some estimates, the collective demand from AI and other digital technologies will make up 20 percent of global power consumption by 2030.
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Read more: https://theconversation.com/aiis-bad-for-envirth-the-bigger-than-e-energy-Consum-247842
Microsoft is commissioned again three Mile Island, but how many moth balls are available? Even gas has limits. It was inevitable that they would turn to coal during their need.
The interesting point in this article is that the author has not even tried to have renewable energies a place in this new world order. They are still annoyed about climate change, but nobody takes their coals, I call my calls.
The green movement is finally returned to its real place in society – a marginal movement of ignored radicals.
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