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AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era artwork
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AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era

WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More by WIRED

Jul 12, 202408:48Science & Medicine

Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era is an episode from WIRED Science: Space, Health, Biotech, and More by WIRED. Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user exp...

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