A new study from Google suggests its Gemini LLM uses around 0.24 Wh per text query. That's the same energy as using a microwave for one second.| www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com
Here’s how MIT Technology Review waded through a mess of data and hidden variables to calculate the individual and collective energy demand from AI.| MIT Technology Review
Interesting useful facts, and some framing I think is super misleading| andymasley.substack.com
As AI evolves and proliferates at breakneck speed, its insatiable need for energy is surpassing the capacity of today’s infrastructure. This rapid growth in energy consumption is forcing companies to rethink how AI is powered. And that means opportunities for renewable energy sector investors.| Genus
While the rest of the world loses its collective mind over artificial intelligence, Tasmania is sitting on an amazing competitive advantage… and might be about to throw it away by jumping on the AI bandwagon. Everything that makes Tasmania economically successful is the exact opposite of what AI represents. And if Tasmanian businesses start chasing AI “efficiency” instead of leveraging their authentic advantages, they’ll transform from premium producers into generic commodity suppliers.| hey.paris
Reigniting the spark of humanist software design| Jonas Downey
My ideas, explorations and decisions over the last week, in the hopes they'll assist yours| sarafosterauthor.substack.com
Sauce The rise of the technology industry over the last few decades has been powered by its very strong economies of scale . Once you have ...| blog.dshr.org
We're the good guys. They're the bad guys.| Vale.Rocks
An AI depiction of AI bots being ‘trained’ by a programmer; my own silly prompt| how to save the world
Hey ChatGPT, wie viel Energie brauchst du?| SMWB
Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.| blog.glyph.im
This week in ABC: CNBC gets an exclusive peek inside ASML's cleanroom for High NA EUV, Benedict Evans dissects AI on The MAD podcast, and Pac-Man is officially greying at the temples| alwaysbecurious.substack.com
About six weeks ago I annoyed a lot of people by pointing out an inconvenient truth about generative AI (ChatGPT and other large-language models): it is not, in fact, burning down the planet. Despi…| Scientist Sees Squirrel
Earlier this week, it was discovered that the Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer had both published an externally-produced "special supplement" that contained facts, experts, and book titles entirely made up by an AI chatbot. There's been a lot written about this (former Chicago Reader editor Martha Bayne's is the best), and I don't need to rehash it all. But the thing that is most disheartening to me is how at every step along the way, nobody cared.| dansinker.com
An unprecedented look at the state of AI’s energy and resource usage, where it is now, where it is headed in the years to come, and why we have to get it right.| MIT Technology Review
