Comment on AI is not bad for the environment in comparison with many other regular activities.
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 1 week agoI would be curious to compare that to Google search. Some experts estimate Google search and the time spent reviewing the results on your device can be 3-10g of Co2. The Google part alone is maybe .2g per search.
www.fastcompany.com/…/internet_impact_visualized
Here they estimated in 2018 that just rendering front page cost 300 tons a minute, so 432,000 tons a day. Just for the front page.
Just to put it in perspective that the Internet itself is not free. It’s expensive to power sending all this data around!