The current wave of [generative] AI takes large datacenters to run; those are built in places with cheap land, but often relatively scarce water for cooling, and take up lots of energy that the local network isn’t ready for. There are questions about the hardware supply chain too. Tech companies are secretive about all this.
Side note: “Artificial Intelligence” is an interdisciplinary field that’s been around for >70 years and utilized a variety of computational techniques for a a variety of tasks.
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The current wave of [generative] AI takes large datacenters to run; those are built in places with cheap land, but often relatively scarce water for cooling, and take up lots of energy that the local network isn’t ready for. There are questions about the hardware supply chain too. Tech companies are secretive about all this.
Side note: “Artificial Intelligence” is an interdisciplinary field that’s been around for >70 years and utilized a variety of computational techniques for a a variety of tasks.