AI knowledge facilities are so sizzling proper now. Every time generative AI companies run their large language fashions to get a chatbot to reply certainly one of your questions, it takes quite a lot of processing energy to sift by way of all that knowledge. That can use quite a lot of power, which suggests the proliferation of AI is elevating questions on how sustainable this know-how truly is and the way it impacts surrounding ecosystems. Some corporations assume they’ve an answer: run these knowledge facilities underwater, the place they’ll use the encircling seawater to chill and higher management the temperature of the GPUs inside them. But it seems, throwing one thing into the ocean isn’t all the time a foolproof plan to cut back its environmental affect.
This week on Gadget LabWIRED reporters Paresh Dave and Reece Rogers be a part of the present to speak about their reporting on underwater knowledge facilities and the way the race to energy AI techniques is impacting the atmosphere.
Show notes
Read Paresh and Reece’s story about their plan to construct an underwater knowledge middle in San Francisco Bay. Read Reece’s tales about how that is the age of AI hyperconsumption and methods to navigate all of the AI hype. Read Lauren’s story in regards to the social community inhabited solely by bots. Read Karen Hao’s story in The Atlantic on how corporations like Microsoft are fetch water from the desert for use to chill AI knowledge facilities. Here is the Black Cat substack article about the character Harper from IndustryFollow all of the updates from WIRED on synthetic intelligence and local weather.
Recommendations
Paresh recommends trying out cookbooks at your native library. Reece recommends the soundtrack of the first Dusk movie for all of your fall feels. Lauren recommends the HBO present IndustryMike recommends Anna Weiner profile of bicycle designer Grant Peterson In The New Yorker.
Reece Rogers will be discovered on social media @oftencresoParesh Dave is @bird33Lauren Goode is @Lauren Goode. Michael Calore is @snackfight@heads.social. Shine the primary hotline at @Gadget LabThe present is produced by Boone Ashworth (@booneashworth). Our theme music is by Solar Keys.
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