Training AI: The Real Carbon Footprint Could AI Be the Next Big Energy Consumer After Bitcoin?
The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is growing continuously with the aid of innovations, automation, robots, machine learning, and countless other advanced technologies, we can perform tasks with greater efficiency and precision. However, amidst the buzz of AI’s current and potential achievements lies the perilous issue of AI’s increasing energy consumption and sustainable growth. Should we format AI as an added energy predator like we do with Bitcoin? The Increase in Electricity Consumption Eagered by AI Models The revolution in AI technology is underpinned by deep-learning-based language models, such as GPT series developed by OpenAI and Gemini by Google DeepMind. Such models require overwhelming computational capabilities for training and execution. During training, billions of parameters (the frameworks of an AI’s “understanding”) must be processed, utilizing powerful GPU clusters available in an expansive network of data ce...