Talk:Environmental impacts of artificial intelligence

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I left the following feedback for the creator/future reviewers while reviewing this article: Nice article!!

Broc (talk) 11:16, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

ENERGY usage could be a small background section, but it should be clearly separated from the CO2 discussions in a separate section.
These are clearly different topics, but the large energy usage could be a short background for the CO2 part. What I removed maybe could go in that separate section.

For example, AI in Iceland might have practically no "environmental impact" other than the building of new geothermal plants. --- Avatar317 (talk) 23:00, 3 July 2024 (UTC)


 * Agreed. we can have a section about how AI methods may have differing footprints based on whether they are run in data centers close to renewable energy sources. Bluethricecreamman (talk) 05:25, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Another possibility is to rename the article to "Energy usage and resulting environmental impact from AI" since I haven't heard of ANY other negative environmental impacts discussed other than energy usage. Are there any? --- Avatar317 (talk) 23:04, 3 July 2024 (UTC)


 * I've added in a water usage section. I suspect there is e-waste involved with the chips used for AI, but can't find anything yet... I'm assuming GPU chips are still new enough that e-waste isn't a huge issue.
 * Main issue with making this article is we don't have a real environmental impact of computing article, just a redirect to green computing. This deserves its own article with all the sourcing, but it also should have context of energy/water usage/ewaste of data centers/ Bluethricecreamman (talk) 05:27, 4 July 2024 (UTC)