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We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.
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Well, it's a bit better than that, simply because you can train AI with solar power. Probably nobody does that currently, as it's easier, faster-to-market and probably (for whatever corrupt reason) cheaper for business to let it run on burning fossils/nuclear. Currently there's an insane amount of waste, often 1000s of models are trained and only the best performing one is deployed - and then it's just a fancy autocomplete. The better use is for prediction of material failure, new medicine and protein folding, generally improved processes.
With asbestos you get some convenience, but it'll be for eternity a pain to find a waste management facility that will accept it.