Why doomsday warnings are not the only threat to the AI juggernaut
But, as with all computers, almost every watt of the significant electricity powering this process leaves as heat, and the sound you can hear is the slow whir of thousands of fans required to prevent the heat from frying the racks of servers. Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has called for a moratorium on any new construction. On data centres, 71% were opposed, including 48% strongly opposed.
- ▪But, as with all computers, almost every watt of the significant electricity powering this process leaves as heat, and the sound you can hear is the slow whir of thousands of fans required to prevent the heat from frying the racks of server
- ▪Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders has called for a moratorium on any new construction.
- ▪On data centres, 71% were opposed, including 48% strongly opposed.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 16 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race — The Guardian — Tech
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Why doomsday warnings are not the only threat to the AI juggernautPublished23 minutes agoByFaisal IslamEconomics editorThere is an eerie low hum that emanates from data centres, where tens of thousands of chips make trillions of computations a second to help drive the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.These chips power the text, images and video generated by the queries made by the world of the advanced AI models.Their computations, which are in effect the switching on and off of microscopic silicon transistors that make up a chip, are actually silent.
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