Justine Calma
AI makes Google Search gobble up more energy and water.
Data centers already use a lot of water and electricity, and adding AI overviews to Google Search only makes those problems bigger.
AI uses “orders of magnitude more energy” than traditional search engines, Hugging Face researcher Sasha Luccioni tells Scientific American.
Correction: Apple’s AI emoji are generated on device, not in data centers.
What Do Google’s AI Answers Cost the Environment?
[Scientific American]
