AI's unsustainable carbon footprint

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Will AI Be Another Unsustainable Environmental Disaster? | Opinion

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The carbon footprint of generative AI , which includes models like Gemini and ChatGPT, is overwhelming.

We should act now before it snowballs into another challenge to the planet's sustainability.

We can still exist if AI does not perform its wonders but not if Mother Nature can't survive the human-created energy and water demands of unsustainable technology.

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