Is AI getting out of hand?

I wonder if people knew about the environmental cost of AI…..the amount of water used to cool the servers, whether they might think twice about how much they use it. I know I didn’t realise until my son told me.

Maybe having to pay something to use AI would make people more conscious of their usage and help limit unnecessary use.

Lonehare12 said:

I wonder if people knew about the environmental cost

I think that's obvious, but most people don't see what's obvious to me.

it's not just water, its plastics to build hardware and energy use. I think the rising cost of domestic energy might be partly to encourage us to use less, so the massive server farms can have more?

Lonehare12 said:

I wonder if people knew about the environmental cost

I think that's obvious, but most people don't see what's obvious to me.

it's not just water, its plastics to build hardware and energy use. I think the rising cost of domestic energy might be partly to encourage us to use less, so the massive server farms can have more?