Prof Jeannie Paterson, co-director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne, says part of the problem is the limited transparency from tech companies about the energy, water and emissions impacts of AI and datacentres.
“But it’s clear that training models and running datacentres is an energy intensive task”, she says.
— Petra StockReplicated under Fair Use from The environmental cost of datacentres is rising. Is it time to quit AI? by Petra Stock.