No, AI Queries & Images Aren’t Carbon Bombs, So Stop Hyperventilating

CleanTechnica
By Michael BarnardJun 14, 2024, 12:05 pm666 ptsHot
Regular readers will either appreciate or hate that for roughly 20 months I’ve been decorating my articles and presentations with images generated by artificial intelligence algorithms. I’m not going to address the full range of reasons, but will just do some basic math on the electricity use to get a ...…

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