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“We emit sixty times more carbon by making a query on ChatGPT than on Google”

2024-03-23T14:43:40.593Z

Highlights: “We emit sixty times more carbon by making a query on ChatGPT than on Google’. Data centers represent 1% of global electricity demand. Do we have a precise idea of ​​the carbon impact generated by the creation and use of artificial intelligence (AI)?‘Is the use of AI today a tool compatible with preserving the environment?’ ‘Are we using AI in the same proportions as we did 14 years ago?' ‘Is AI a tool that can be used in a sustainable way?'


FIGARO DEMAIN - Dejan Glavas is associate professor of finance and director of the IA for Sustainability institute at Essca.


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- Is the use of artificial intelligence today a tool compatible with preserving the environment?

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Dejan Glavas.- Like any human activity, artificial intelligence (AI) has an environmental impact.

This impact is complex to measure because it is currently difficult to distinguish the increase in electricity consumption generated by AI, compared to the rest of digital activity.

Relatively stable since 2010, data centers represent 1% of global electricity demand.

This does not mean that we use digital tools in the same proportions as fourteen years ago... Our uses are undoubtedly increasing.

However, data centers have, until today, been increasingly energy efficient, which has made it possible to offset the increase in demand through the electrification of uses, particularly in industry.

Do we have a precise idea of

​​the carbon impact

generated by the creation and…

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Source: lefigaro

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