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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Maanvi Singh

As the AI industry booms, what toll will it take on the environment?

AI programs can seem incorporeal, but they are powered by a network of servers in data centres.
AI programs can seem incorporeal, but they are powered by a network of servers in data centres. Photograph: Pitinan Piyavatin/Alamy

One question that ChatGPT can’t quite answer: how much energy do you consume?

“As an AI language model, I don’t have a physical presence or directly consume energy,” it’ll say, or: “The energy consumption associated with my operations is primarily related to the servers and infrastructure used to host and run the model.”

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