2025-01-16 20:43
Kate Crawford: "So far, #generative AI is most significant from an environmental perspective: It is fundamentally reshaping Earth. AI is one of the largest planetary architectures ever built by our species, requiring vast amounts of energy, minerals, water, data, and labor. From a political ecology perspective, this resource-hungry global infrastructure is pushing electric grids beyond their capacity and exacerbating the climate crisis." 1/2