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An Environmental Perspective on Artificial Intelligence
Time to Present: 60 mins
Summary:
AI represents one of the biggest inflection points in the modern world of technology. Hyperscalers and other companies see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to leverage AI to enhance existing business models and create new innovations. Today the only way we know of to enhance AI performance is to use more and more compute power to train Generative AI models. This in turn seems to require astonishing amounts of electrical power that places massive strain on existing electrical grids, uses huge volumes of fresh water, and may place any chance of stemming climate change at risk.
In this tutorial we will look at how these models work, why they consume so much power, and why clean energy options to feed these AI data centers are so challenging.
