Opponents Highlight the, Environmental Impact of , Artificial Intelligence .<br />VentureBeat reports that the CEO of OpenAI <br />has asked for $7 trillion to develop a project aimed <br />at dramatically increasing the world's chip capacity.<br />VentureBeat reports that the CEO of OpenAI <br />has asked for $7 trillion to develop a project aimed <br />at dramatically increasing the world's chip capacity.<br />OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the "wildly <br />ambitious" project would also vastly improve <br />the ability to power advanced AI models.<br />OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the "wildly <br />ambitious" project would also vastly improve <br />the ability to power advanced AI models.<br />However, opponents of the proposed <br />project have expressed concerns over <br />the environmental impact of Altman's plan. .<br />If it does work out, the amount <br />of natural resources that will be <br />required is just mind-boggling. <br />Even if the energy is renewable <br />(which it isn’t guaranteed to be), <br />the quantity of water and rare earth <br />minerals required is astronomical, Sasha Luccioni, Climate lead and researcher <br />at Hugging Face, via VentureBeat.<br />In September of 2023, 'Fortune' reported that <br />AI tools were responsible for a 34% spike <br />in Microsoft's water consumption. .<br />In September of 2023, 'Fortune' reported that <br />AI tools were responsible for a 34% spike <br />in Microsoft's water consumption. .<br />Another study from 2023 revealed <br />that OpenAI's training for GPT-3 <br />consumed 700,000 liters of water.<br />Another study from 2023 revealed <br />that OpenAI's training for GPT-3 <br />consumed 700,000 liters of water.<br />Sasha Luccioni, climate lead and researcher at Hugging <br />Face, has criticized Nvidia for a lack of transparency <br />regarding the company's environmental footprint.<br />Sasha Luccioni, climate lead and researcher at Hugging <br />Face, has criticized Nvidia for a lack of transparency <br />regarding the company's environmental footprint.<br />Nvidia has yet to publish <br />any information about <br />the environmental footprint <br />of their manufacturing, Sasha Luccioni, Climate lead and researcher <br />at Hugging Face, via VentureBeat.<br />Luccioni points out that rather than <br />improving over time, transparency regarding <br />the environmental impact of AI has gotten worse.<br />If you look at the PaLM 1 paper <br />from Google, which was in 2022, <br />and then Palm 2 [released in May <br />2023], the amount of information <br />they provided drastically dropped, Sasha Luccioni, Climate lead and researcher <br />at Hugging Face, via VentureBeat.<br />Now [companies] don’t even say <br />how long it took [to train], how many <br />chips they used, there’s absolutely <br />no information provided anymore, Sasha Luccioni, Climate lead and researcher <br />at Hugging Face, via VentureBeat
