RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/115646642010144982

Stellar #investigative #journalism from RollingStone on the #environmental & human cost of mega #datacentres.
"It never occurred to Doherty that his effort to fix the #water problem would provoke the ire of a group of local officials who resented scrutiny of their role in the #pollution. That it would end his political career, tank his cattle sales, and cause him so much stress he’d lose 50 pounds".

New homes in London were delayed by 'energy-hungry' data centres

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mpr1mvwj3o

#HackerNews #NewHomes #London #DataCentres #EnergyDelay #UrbanDevelopment

RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/115646642010144982

Stellar #investigative #journalism from RollingStone on the #environmental & human cost of mega #datacentres.
"It never occurred to Doherty that his effort to fix the #water problem would provoke the ire of a group of local officials who resented scrutiny of their role in the #pollution. That it would end his political career, tank his cattle sales, and cause him so much stress he’d lose 50 pounds".

"The danger of #AI is not that it will achieve consciousness and hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness. The AI hype is part of a larger, false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion. Let’s not get fooled."

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-data-centers-climate-change/
#ArtificialIntelligence #tech #techFutures #BigTech #dataCentres #energy #climateChange

"The danger of #AI is not that it will achieve consciousness and hit the big red button. The end is much less flashy, far more stupid: The resource-intensive advertisement tools of AI will increasingly overtax the grid, leaving us to cook alive in sweltering darkness. The AI hype is part of a larger, false narrative justifying fossil fuel expansion. Let’s not get fooled."

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ai-data-centers-climate-change/
#ArtificialIntelligence #tech #techFutures #BigTech #dataCentres #energy #climateChange

Thought for the day:

We used to measure data centres in how many rack units of capacity they had - e.g. this data centre has 5000 rack unit equivalent capacity. This is a measure of physical capacity.

Then we measure data centres in TFLOPS - how many trillions of floating point operations they could perform. This is a measure of computational capacity.

Now we measure data centres in Gigawatts - how much power they consume. This is a measure of power consumption, not physical space or output.

What *should* we measure data centres in? Gigalitres of water consumed? Households disrupted by their construction?

#data #dataCentres #HPC

Thought for the day:

We used to measure data centres in how many rack units of capacity they had - e.g. this data centre has 5000 rack unit equivalent capacity. This is a measure of physical capacity.

Then we measure data centres in TFLOPS - how many trillions of floating point operations they could perform. This is a measure of computational capacity.

Now we measure data centres in Gigawatts - how much power they consume. This is a measure of power consumption, not physical space or output.

What *should* we measure data centres in? Gigalitres of water consumed? Households disrupted by their construction?

#data #dataCentres #HPC

... in general. The #DataVampires series @parismarx did for the Tech Won't Save Us podcast is a great exploration of this;

https://techwontsave.us/episode/241_data_vampires_going_hyperscale_episode_1

#podcasts #TechWontSaveUs#DataCentres#HyperScale

@sidawson