to it was a photo stuff find out about some on stores. and so migraine, reliable news to migrate the hey, i is interwoven into our everyday lives powers chat, c p t is integral to data analysis in many jobs and it's embedded. 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. g p t. what time is it in new york? useful, right. but did you know that in a chat box and seemed 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 pop from electricity. these systems require more to metric training and models requires household processes, mostly gp, useful graphic processing units. these are installed in service and consume lots 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 i. i systems take weeks to month to train on 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, and cryptic 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 in data centers and the international energy agency estimates that could 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 g, b t, often times based on large language models which are trained using lots of data. that way they can generate an onset 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 not good when you do a search with google or any other traffic search engine, what happens is a simple dates, a query that fit with generative a i is, is a huge model behind it. and for each request, the model is activated. the computer graphics processes tend to, he's while the working if you search for boiling water on a cpu, you'll find many videos like this to prevent ships from getting damaged that cool 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 it's about the evaporates during the cooling process. that is know if it gets partially re directed back into the rivers or most associates, then it can be used again. it will just be wilma, which means it will change the, the color system of the river of water source, the flow for, for the color, which in turn could hom, that eco system. chatbox light touchy beauty. i estimated to need about how silly to avoid to, to on so 20 to 50 requests, an exact number. it's hard to pin down because companies on exactly eager to disclose that goes on the 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 a data centers don't really benefit from them and actually have to face the environmental repercussions more and more to this. and residents are raising their voices. and that being said, we may,

i went back to this and the today and capital santiago, environmental groups in chile, a fighting back against the construction of more data centers. many companies including tech try and google have created several farms in the santiago region, a mall of being planned activists like tanya rodriguez have long been sounding below the winter. then you'll get the noise to have it can be status centers of the nature necessary, a method of 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. maybe i'm getting better enough for those and tenure. frederick is as 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 i got activists say these data centers have a huge impact on chinese water 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 reusable, water in a given, the increasing drops are experiencing. this is a mind boggling waste, a some that will to go to your environment to, let's say the data center has high water consumption, puts the key car what times at risk santiago does not have the luxury of launch. watch them is, is actually the region is in a drought period. so it's predicted to stretch on for years in the middle that they need that many people used to come across and again, through replacements here where they used to grow strawberries just them. and now they can't do anything out and they have to buy every single them and they don't even have water to us. i mean, you know, we moved through some of the new with government support. santiago has become

a popular location and left in america today to sentence. is that see what tequila is attractive because our laws are lack suite of almost noon legislation? yes. plus there is no political responsibility with $170.00 that or do you think that this recognize that there are also advantages to ai, but they want the environmental bed and a data centers to be shed more fairly with other countries. the need of getting these pay arrive here in want to do these huge construction project which are coming from europe. so they bring them here to latin america. do i let you know maybe got that protests have been successful? actually in court holsted, 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 billing that you don't 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 controversy. this is the data center, so what you don't masks and model grok 3 is being trained, powered by colossus. already considered the world's largest, a super computer must cause 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. they'll also be used to supply the entire site. with enough talent gas powered arrow, the riveted turbine 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 in 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, but it's very powerful. i models, i suppose, to run on it. and it's supposed to consume far less energy than stand up to the computers. could this produce the needs the 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 to a systems that yet another one. data centers need metals like silicon cup of gold and 90. many of which are 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 a vises or into a hole that goes on the shapes, needs to be replaced. more of them in means they don't losses at 5 or 6 years, but rather of these 3 or 4 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 on nearly 2030. all of this e waste use to generate to that large language models. and the thing about these current models is the trying to do a tool which can be a problem according to power smocks. possibly the thing with these generative a on 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 and less 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 jennifer 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 when us, when it comes to the i boom, and the consequences for us and our environment would go a long way that's it for today by and see you next time the you might see me how much can we do simultaneously?

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the we will say the way starts february 14 o d w. the artificial intelligence is part of our lives being on social media platforms or in the am a checkbox we use among other things a i make sure we're protective from harmful violence content, but there are real people behind this technology. we do not too far from the world glitzy check homes. these data workers train a systems by assisting through massive amounts of harmful data. it's tells you explain to me how does the flesh of a human face like while they carry out the awesome ruling task of keeping a systems clean. international corporations on the other side of the globe,

reach the profits we'd be used to make before b, and is from kenya and germany. we set out to investigate this back story of a i on covering a web of global connections. that power a huge industry without us, there will be no and for that because we have the most important part of the, of this a i what's lifelike for those training? a systems that the entire world now relies on our quest to find out begins in kenya is bustling capital of nairobi. here we meet junction, you are a single mother of one. in her twenty's, she left the university to support her family bound.