Tech giants including OpenAI, Meta and Google are being urged to tackle AI’s dirty secret – its massive power problem.
Generative AI already uses as much energy as a small country and is predicted to rival that of Japan within a year. Such searches use 10 times the energy of a normal web search, and the technology has tripled the energy requirements of the entire tech sector in just two years.
“We’re wasting a lot of water with these systems, and very few people realise that it’s a major problem,” she said. “That’s why I think personally the number one priority for the sector should be sustainability. Not the AI race.” Altman has personally invested in nuclear fusion company Helion Energy, which has signed a deal to provide nuclear energy to Microsoft.
Australia, she believes, has a critical role to play. As a country already grappling with climate impacts, its policies could set global precedents, she said. That’s also the view of Faith Taylor, the executive in charge of sustainability for Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT services provider.“I like to say ‘sustainability is a team sport’,” Taylor said. “There is an urgent need to address climate change, and it takes collective action ...
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