Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI
TacticsConsort@yiffit.net 1 month ago
Holy fuck. I knew that AI did use above average amounts of power, but THIRTY FUCKING PERCENT added to the total emissions of a data giant like Microsoft??? That’s absurd! How the hell did they create something so inefficient??
Hackworth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Efficiencies are in the works from a lot of angles (new hardware, novel agent structures, new neural net types, etc). The first computers filled rooms, and these seem to be improving much faster. 4x the rate of Moore’s Law, if it holds.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The Jevons paradox would like a word
Hackworth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
To tie that back to MS, the code base for Windows is crufty af. I expect efficiencies to continue to come from the research and open source domains, but it’s fair to point out that corpo only implement efficiencies that cost money if they can’t offset that cost onto externalities like cheap labor and foreign resource degradation.