{"id":13433,"date":"2024-08-31T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13433"},"modified":"2024-09-19T13:06:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T20:06:30","slug":"ai-eats-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/08\/31\/ai-eats-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Eats Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

by REECE ROGERS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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RIGHT NOW, GENERATIVE<\/strong> artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. An AI-generated summary<\/a> may randomly appear at the top of the results whenever you do a Google search. Or you might be prompted to try Meta\u2019s AI tool<\/a> while browsing Facebook. And that ever-present sparkle emoji<\/a> continues to haunt my dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This rush to add AI to as many online interactions as possible can be traced back to OpenAI\u2019s boundary-pushing release of\u00a0ChatGPT<\/a>\u00a0late in 2022. Silicon Valley soon became obsessed with generative AI, and nearly two years later, AI tools powered by\u00a0large language models<\/a>\u00a0permeate the online user experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One unfortunate side effect of this proliferation is that the computing processes required to run generative AI systems are much more resource intensive. This has led to the arrival of the internet\u2019s hyper-consumption era, a period defined by the spread of a new kind of computing that demands excessive amounts of electricity and water to build as well as operate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from WIRED AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation. by REECE ROGERS RIGHT NOW, GENERATIVE artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore online. An AI-generated summary may randomly appear at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}