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“A recent study by Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University found that using AI to perform various tasks such as generating images or writing emails incurs a significant energy and carbon cost. Generating one image using a powerful AI model can consume as much energy as charging a smartphone, while text generation is less energy-intensive. The findings suggest a need to reconsider the use of generative AI in favor of less carbon-intensive alternatives.”
It’s a new year and we’re still uncovering the depths of algorithmic-based harms. Earth 1 is being traumatized by AI in terms of water and energy consumption.
And it’s important to not list these numbers without sharing how they scale. There are approximately 10 million ChatGPT prompts processed daily with a cost of 7 cents per prompt. So, after doing some quick ChatGPT math, we have some astounding figures: costing $700,000 per day and using 100,000-1,00,000 liters of water per day. Images, as to be expected, cost more and use more water. Nearly 34 million AI-generated images are created daily. The energy needs therefore average 8.5 million hours of refrigerator powering time or fully charging 34 million smartphones.
So now that we’re learning some of the concrete costs to our natural resources based on current estimated levels of consumption, we need to choose responsibly and ethically when and how often to use AI tools, systems, and platforms. Our carbon footprints are casting a long, deep, and wide shadow we can’t conveniently overlook. Earth 1 needs all of us to reduce our collective use of AI.
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