The internet contributes 1.6 billion annual tons in greenhouse gas emissions. Google and Microsoft's AI search war will make it worse.
"It requires processing power as well as storage and efficient search," Alan Woodward, professor of cybersecurity at the University of Surrey, told Wired."Every time we see a step change in online processing, we see significant increases in the power and cooling resources required by large processing centers. I think this could be such a step."
The new search engines will also require more data centers to store data. Martin Bouchard, founder of data center company QScale, told Wired that AI would result in"at least four or five times more computing per search." In a statement to Insider, Jane Park, a spokesperson for Google, said the company would initially be launching a"lighter" version of Bard that would require less computing power.detailing the energy costs of state-of-the-art language models, including an earlier and larger, version of LaMDA," Park said in a statement.
Environmental issues aren't the only criticisms ChatGPT and Google's AI have received in the past. Google's rollout for Bard garnered criticism from employees who say
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