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We asked ChatGPT about climate change — it left a lot out
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Climate science is complex and even though ChatGPT demonstrated decent accuracy responding to very specific questions, it missed several critical points — the most critical being that reducing methane is the fastest way to slow warming.
Subscriber Carbon Costs Now Included in French Telecom Charges
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Artificial Intelligence Is Booming—So Is Its Carbon Footprint
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So, ChatGPT, Is Your Carbon Footprint Artificial, Too?
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There are lots of things Open AI’s artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT is being used for. We asked it about its carbon footprint.
The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret
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Integrating large language models into search engines could mean a fivefold increase in computing power and huge carbon emissions.
Tools and tips to track server power consumption
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Server power requirements differ for each organization, but it's still essential to monitor peak loads and track how much power your servers consume to avoid outages.
Camera Offset Project
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Going camera-off reduces the carbon footprint of a video call by 96%.
What's the carbon footprint of … the internet?
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The internet releases around 300m tonnes of CO2 a year – as much as all the coal, oil and gas burned in Turkey or Poland, or more than half of the fossil fuels burned in the UK
The Carbon Footprint Of Artificial Intelligence Is On The Rise
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With hopes that it would alter trillion-dollar industries like retail and medical, machine learning has become the newest glittering toy in the digital world. But, each new chatbot and image generator must be built using a lot of electricity, which implies that the technology may be to blame for a significant and rising quantity of carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.
Deep Learning’s Carbon Emissions Problem
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Modern AI models consume a massive amount of energy, and these energy requirements are growing at a breathtaking rate. In the deep learning era, the computational resources needed to produce a best-in-class AI model has on average doubled every 3.4 months; this translates to a 300,000x increase between 2012 and 2018. GPT-3 is just the latest embodiment of this exponential trajectory.
Is ChatGPT Eco-Friendly? Understanding AI’s Environmental Impact
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As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow and change the way we live, work and communicate, it’s only natural that we start to question the environmental impact of these technologies.
Hologram NFTs at Art Basel Miami Are Trying to Save the Oceans
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Can NFTs be a vehicle for environmental action?
How to measure the power consumption of your backend service
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Climate killer artificial intelligence?
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With ChatGPT or Midjourney, AI has reached the average user. What hardly anyone is interested in is the ecological footprint. Golem.de did the math and asked three researchers.
The carbon footprint of ChatGPT
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When something as big as OpenAI ChatGPT comes along, the first thought of the community at ClimateAction.Tech isn’t “Ooh, let’s try it!”, but rather “Hmm, I wonder what the carbon footprint of it is?”. Since the internet is the planet’s largest coal-powered machine, anything that gets a lot of traffic is likely to be emitting a lot of CO₂.
ChatGPT’s Carbon Footprint
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In recent months, ChatGPT has become highly popular and has transformed the world of web writing. Despite its effectiveness and comprehensiveness, the use of this artificial intelligence system also contributes to its environmental impact and thus it is important to be aware of its digital footprint.
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
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This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
My exclusive interview with ChatGPT about AI, climate tech and sustainability
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Can artificial intelligence conduct an informed conversation about the broad and complex technologies under the climate tech umbrella? Let's let it speak for itself.
Internet power consumption
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Whether at work, at home, or on the go - we use the Internet every day, everywhere. Worldwide, more than 4.9 billion people are online with smartphones, tablets, laptops and classic PCs. This is made possible by countless data centers. The data we access 24 hours a day is stored on thousands of servers. What seems so self-evident requires complex technologies and entails enormous power consumption.
Clickbait sites have huge carbon footprints and advertisers urged to snub them
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Research finds that made-for-advertising websites provide no value to businesses while generating excessive amounts of CO2 emissions.
The internet consumes extraordinary amounts of energy. Here’s how we can make it more sustainable
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Artists Back 'Green' NFT Sale Citing Concerns Over Crypto's Environmental Impact
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The collaborative effort involving RNDR, Nifty Gateway and Beeple includes carbon offsets and a donation to the Open Earth Foundation.
51% of digital advertising businesses aren’t measuring their carbon emissions
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A report by IAB Europe found marketers agree that measurement is the key to reducing digital’s carbon footprint – but they are lagging on action.
New law forces French operators to disclose carbon footprint to public
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The French Senate has passed a law that aims to reduce the environmental footprint of digital technology, which includes an obligation for French telecoms operators to disclose to the public what they are doing to this end.
The Carbon Footprint of ChatGPT
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This article attempts to estimate the carbon footprint of the popular OpenAI chatbot called ChatGPT
The climate controversy swirling around NFTs
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Server Rack Power Consumption Calculator
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How Much Does an Ad Impression Emit Carbon?
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France wants to reduce the ecological impact of digital technology
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Don’t Be Fooled by ‘Carbon Neutral’ Shipping
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Online shoppers are sometimes given the choice to pay a little more to make their purchase “carbon neutral” or use so-called carbon neutral shipping. In theory, for a few extra bucks, you can negate the greenhouse gas emissions caused by your online purchase.
How the industry must tackle digital advertising’s massive carbon footprint in 2023
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While most marketers express concern over climate change, programmatic advertising’s formidable carbon footprint persists. As part of our Data and Privacy Deep Dive, sustainability experts outline what needs to be done.
How digital marketing is directly contributing to climate change
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The planet is on fire – and digital marketing is partly to blame, argues columnist Samuel Scott.
The dirty secret of Netflix: These numbers are shocking
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Whether Netflix, Disney+ or Amazon Prime Video: The winners of the Corona pandemic include providers of streaming services. Using Netflix as an example, a study now shows what devastating consequences this has.
I asked ChatGPT about its carbon footprint and it didn't have a real answer
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Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks
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Demand for digital services is growing rapidly. Since 2010, the number of internet users worldwide has more than doubled, while global internet traffic has expanded 20-fold. Rapid improvements in energy efficiency have, however, helped moderate growth in energy demand from data centres and data transmission networks, which each account for 1-1.5% of global electricity use. Significant additional government and industry efforts on energy efficiency, RD&D, and decarbonising electricity supply and supply chains are necessary to curb energy demand and reduce emissions rapidly over the coming decade to align with the Net Zero by 2050 Scenario.