[steinvakt2]

If you don’t use AI for climate reasons then you should read the recent reports about how little electricity and water is actually used. It’s basically zero (image and video models excluded). Your information about this is probably related to GPT3.5 or something. Which is now 3 years old - a lifetime in AI world.

[greekrich92]

Big data centers running tons of GPUs and the construction of even bigger ones is not carbon neutral come on

[wat10000]

Don't newer models use more energy? I thought they were getting bigger and more computationally intensive.

[trenchpilgrim]

They use a massive amount of energy during training. During inference they use a tiny amount of energy, less than a web search (turns out you can be really efficient if you don't mind giving wrong answers at random, and can therefore skip expensive database queries!)