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Generative AI is reportedly tripling carbon dioxide emissions from data centers (www.techradar.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20289663

A report from Morgan Stanley suggests the datacenter industry is on track to emit 2.5 billion tons by 2030, which is three times higher than the predictions if generative AI had not come into play.

The extra demand from GenAI will reportedly lead to a rise in emissions from 200 million tons this year to 600 million tons by 2030, thanks largely to the construction of more data centers to keep up with the demand for cloud services.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_ 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Everyone thought AI was going to kill us via some Terminator-like Skynet.

Nope.

It’s just going to let us kill ourselves via greed and accelerate destroying the environment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But it's ok because it's also going to solve climate change.

[–] Rakudjo 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And even if it doesn't, it'll still make hundreds of trillions of dollars doing it, so it was worth it in the end.

[–] exso 2 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, it's all very green!

The cash and stock tickers that is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The solution it will eventually come up with - kill all humans

[–] postmateDumbass 1 points 2 months ago

Its the 'first to market wins' paradigm