Steigende Emissionen, knapper werdendes Wasser und verschwindendes Land – UN-Wissenschaftler: KI bedroht natürliche Ressourcen in Milliardenhöhe. Laut einer Untersuchung der UN-Universität wird der Wasserverbrauch von KI bis 2030 den Bedarf von 1,3 Milliarden Menschen decken, während sein Stromverbrauch den von 650 Millionen Menschen verdreifachen wird
https://unu.edu/inweh/news/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-use-carbon-water-and-land-footprints
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AI data centers will hit 945 TWh by 2030 thats triple some countries right now. Water needs match 1.3 billion people land use doubles Jakarta. Carbon view misses trade offs when renewables increase water or land use.
Prompts drive 80-90 percent of energy. Efficiency often fuels more use and locals pay the price.
Why say triple six hundred million instead of just 1.8 billion?
All the years of effort to lower energy and water use and now it’s burn all the electricity and use all the water you want for something we don’t even have a use for except a future war. Things are not looking good.
Electricity and water are public goods. They are structured in ways that make them easily available and lower priced (vs supplying yourself). AI is taking advantage of this for private gain, reducing availability for everyone else. If they can’t make room for themselves, by taking the time to build their own supplies or funding offsets to reduce scarcity, they will need to be confined. By the only thing more powerful than themselves.
We don’t need worldwide AI usage. People still want to work and have jobs and lives and to contribute. We just want to be fairly compensated and be able to live full lives.
AI for profit is what’s causing all this mess.
All for what? What benefit does the public attain from this? Universal healthcare? Childcare? Universal wage?
Nope. Galahad.