UN report on AI and sustainability

Three findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate crisis:

🌿 Majority of AI energy use (80-90%) is not in training models, but in day-to-day use.

🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse.

🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon.

(From: Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions | United Nations University)

Hidde de Vries (@hdv@front-end.social) is a web enthusiast from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He currently works on accessibility standards for the Dutch government (views his own) and is in the W3C's AB. Previously, he worked for Mozilla, W3C/WAI, national and local governments, Sanoma Learning and others as a freelancer. Hidde is a public speaker (all 91 talks). In his free time, he works on a coffee table book covering the video conferencing apps of our decade.

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