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quick and easy. short and sweet. found us on t w dot com, click on apply and social media video news for learning german quotes from sliced hey, i is interwoven into our everyday lives powers chat, c p t is integral to data analysis and many jobs. and it's embed it and some of our favorite apps, artificial intelligence can be found in and the thing from search engines does not refrigerators. but one of the downsides is the heavy strain. it puts on the environment a problem which often gets overlooked. gp, what time is it in new york as useful, right. but did you know that in a chat bought some seems far more electricity than a regular search engine? and most of the energy consumption doesn't happen here. it's happening in the huge data centers that are processing my request. and so many uses out of sight means

out of mind. using ai tools like touchy p t can be a time saver. but the strain of results is a part from electricity. these systems require water metrics. training a i models requires household processes, mostly gp, useful graphic processing units. these are installed in service. i'm can see a lot of electricity the amount of compute power we need for things like charts you people owe is beyond good and evil and beyond anything that can be consciously considered an environmentally sustainable top to ai systems take weeks to month, to train and large computer classes with thousands of years and these compute systems consume electricity resources that all fall allowed to that any

small city or even botched that the international energy agency predicts that by 2026 the amount of electricity needed to power data centers, artificial intelligence, encrypted currencies, could be twice as much as in 2022 already today the amount of electricity used by data centers in some countries is huge. in orland, for example, right now, 18 percent of the power of the entire country goes to power and data centers and the international energy agency estimates that can be as much of a 3rd of the countries entire power by 2026. so these are really significant numbers, and these issues are really growing not just in europe, but around the world as well. so that's right, that's an upward trend at the plant, the pipeline us president donald trump has announced that investment of up to $500000000000.00 us dollars in a infrastructure. that means they'll be many new data centers across the us, which will make the month to energy skyrocket. this is mostly due to the current,

i boom on the way the systems behind that work. hey, i tools like chat cvt often times based on last language models which are trained using lots of data that way they can generate a noun. so to almost any questions. but that requires a lot of energy. every new request triggers computations that are far more complex than what happens with the traditional search engine. by now, when you do a search with google or any other traffic search engine, what happens is a simple data query that says, we've generative a i, there's a huge model behind it. and for each request, the entire model is activated. and the graphics processors tend to heat while the working if you search for boiling water on a cpu, you'll find many videos like this to prevent it from getting damaged. that cooled down by using funds, which also use electricity. well, by using water. this is also harmful to the environment because often fresh water

from the local supply is used. when the spot sounds good to evaporate, joined the cooling process, that is, know if it gets partially re directed back into the rivers. oh, so sources, then it can be used again, it will just be wilma, which means it will change the color system of the river. old water source, the flow for, for the color, which in turn could have that ecosystem. chatbox light touchy beauty. i estimated to need about possibly to avoid to, to on, to 20, to 50 requests, an exact number. it's hard to pin down because companies on exactly ego to disclose that goes on that will to an energy consumption. there are even non disclosure agreements included in contracts and places that house data centers, but it's becoming increasingly clear. people who live in the data centers don't really benefit from them and actually have to face the environmental repercussions . more and more activist and residents are raising their voices,

and that being said, we met up with back to this and the children, capital santiago, environmental groups in chile, a fighting back against the construction of more data centers. many companies, including tech guy and google, have created several farms in the santiago region, a mall of being planned activists like tanya rodriguez, have long been sounding the alarm. went the then you'll get the noise of having these data centers of the nature necessary. i meant the data centers that are not necessarily beneficial for you on land data, but rather for other countries in the world and we've spoken to generate very few jobs and the environmental impact is severe to me, i'm getting that is enough for those. and tanya rodriguez is a member of the environmental organization, most of the group is protesting the expansion of data centers in the region, including a new google project. most of that activists say these data centers have a huge impact on chiles work to supply i

mean, lot of the data center itself would use 169 liters of water per 2nd. that's the equivalent of nearly 9 olympic sized swimming pools every day, which are filled and drained, whatever. because this isn't very usable water in a given the increasing drops for experiencing. this is a mind boggling waste. a some, there are 2, they got a yellow environmental this say the data center has high water consumption plus the key car. what sends the santiago does not have the luxury of large water visits. and actually the region is in a drought period, so it's predicted to stretch on the yes, in the middle of the need that many people used to come across and again, through replacements here where they need to grow strawberry system. and now they can't do anything out and they have to buy every single one and they don't even have water to us. i mean, you know, we moved through some of the venue with government support. santiago has become

a popular location and left in america. so data sentence is i'd like to see what is attractive because our laws are lacks. we have almost no legislation. plus there is no political responsibility with $170.00. that will, do you think that is recognize that there are also advantages, but they want the environmental burden of data centers to be shed more fairly without the countries the ending of getting these b arrive here in want to do these huge construction project which are coming from europe, so they bring them here to latin america. you, i do, you know, maybe guy that protests have been successful in a chillen coat, halted google's data center project ruling that it had to consider its environmental impact. google has planted trees to offset emissions, but the region continues to be effected by drought. chilion activists continue to

fight for chains and hope that the government will implement strict to environmental regulations in the future. environmental regulations have repeatedly been a stumbling block for tech building that either must, he's known for his ambitious times like flying to mazda, or creating the most powerful ai system in the world. he's already built a super computer in memphis given its impact on the local community. it's no surprise the projects being met with contra bessie. this is the data center. so what you don't masks and model grok 3 is being trained, powered by cut off. this already considered the world's largest. a super computer mosque has plans to expand the computers, graphics chips, the 1000000 that's unprecedented computing power, which means huge amounts of energy consumption. must facilitate, 1st, planned to use a 150 megawatts of electricity. late to announcing it would need double methane gas

turbines are also been used to supply the entire site with enough power gas powered arrow, the riveted turbines mounted on trailers that are spewing climate, changing emissions into this community. air right now. and this without any environmental impact statement or even a permit due to the legal loophole that they're on trailers and they're only temporary. but actually they could be run $364.00 days a year. climate that to the criticized that the construction of the facility was rush i completed and just a few months without consulting the public. that's why the engaging with the community about the supercomputer and its impact on the environment. it's abundantly clear that something needs to change when it comes to energy consumption and data centers, for example, reducing energy consumption of chips and services that making them more efficient.

the us company and video unveiled in a super computer for the home. that is very powerful. i models, i suppose to run on it, and it's supposed to consume far less energy, then stand up to the computers. good. this reduce the need for data centers. will see. meanwhile, google on the oracle are looking to construct many nuclear power plants to generate enough power. so that data centers show nuclear energy is tied to low a carbon emissions. but it also produces highly talks like nuclear waste. in my opinion, that is not the solution. unfortunately, energy consumption and water usage on the only environmental issues linked i. i systems that yet another one. data centers need metals like silicon cup of gold and 90 minium, which i used in computer chips. when these results is a mind, forest i cleared, toxic substances are released plus, producing the metals requires a lot of energy and jennifer survey,

i put incredible strain on chips by his or into hole that goes on. the chips needs to be replaced. my thought means they don't last 5 or 6 years, but rather of these 3. 0 cool. and then everything gets thrown away and replaced. and that's exactly the issue. most of this stuff does not get recycled, which makes electronic waste a major environmental hazard. a chinese is really research team estimates. $2500000.00 tons of additional e waste could be accumulated annually by 2030. all of this the waste use in general to the lodge language models. and the thing about these current models is the trying to do it all, which can be a problem according to power spots. possibly this thing with these generative and models that are being made right now is that these companies are trying to make models that can do everything right, generalizable models that, you know, you can ask that one question. you can ask it another, you can ask it to do any number of things and it can try to do them all based on the same model. it's possible to make models that are more tailored to specific use

cases that use less energy and that require less water unless computation. and so that is potentially a better way forward, but that doesn't work so much for the companies and that's not what they're pursuing right now. i for one would like to see jen over today. i use more consciously. do i really need to speak to my refrigerator or all these images from co pilot really necessary and tech companies especially should be taking more responsibility more when us, when it comes to the i boom, and the consequences for us and our environment would go a long way that's if it today by and see you next time. the respect is all about what can we and texting nature. that's

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