Environmental Impact

A Spoonful of Data

Everyone is using AI, or at least talking about using it. But that's not the only hot air that we are concerned with this week, as we focus in on the rarely discussed environmental impact of this new technology. Find out how many homes could be powered for an hour, for the same energy cost as training a new language model. Discover how much water is consumed in cooling the average data centre. Warning, this might make you think twice before drafting your next prompt!