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AI's Environmental Impact
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Baker Plbg
Okay, I don't want to talk about the trade show anymore. I want to talk about AI. We brought this up before. um There's a new article from the University of British Columbia talking about the demands, the voracious energy demands of AI. Okay.
00:00:17
Baker Plbg
um in the With the US company OpenAI, they raised $6.6 billion dollars in their last funding. And we have noticed, and I've seen ah chatter about it amongst the trades of how much work these data centers are bringing, because they're trying to build them up like crazy, right?
Rising Emissions from Tech Giants
00:00:37
Baker Plbg
um They recently announced the Alphabet, the google company of or the parent company of Google, their emissions are up 48%. Microsoft's are up 29%, both of them since 2020. That's in the last five years.
00:00:56
Baker Plbg
There's ah ah a voracious app site for their data centers. um And they, according to one researcher, The one query on to JATGPT uses approximately as much energy as one light bulb for 20 minutes.
AI's Future Energy Consumption
00:01:16
Baker Plbg
And get this, the collective energy demand for data centers in the US is so high that Microsoft recently reached a deal to reopen Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in American history. I haven't heard that anywhere.
00:01:34
Baker Plbg
The burgeoning AI industry needs so much electricity that plans to decommission several coal plants have been delayed. By some estimates, the collective demand of AI and other digital technologies will constitute 20% of the global electricity by 2030.
AI Blame Game and Bias Concerns
00:01:52
Baker Plbg
They're also saying that there's some defects, insidious defects within AI, which I think is hilarious.
00:02:01
Baker Plbg
um And this is sort of on the social side of things. um I'm just going to find this here. So I'm just going to pause this because I'm going scroll through this. So there's a bunch I'm to read this whole thing, but the chatbots we studied were far more likely to blame governments ah for environmental challenges rather than businesses or financial organizations.
00:02:23
Baker Plbg
The government's not going to like that. Similarly, while the vulnerability of indigenous groups to climate change and the biodiversity loss was frequently mentioned and the susceptibility of black people and women to these same challenges received scant attention.
00:02:42
Baker Plbg
People aren't going be happy about that. And then hang on one more second here. It's a very interesting thing. There's no doubt about that. one of the If AI users treat text uncritically, so you just type it in and you believe instantly whatever is being said, which we've all been subject to on social media,
00:03:03
Baker Plbg
ah They risk a arriving at conclusions that propagate biased conceptions of environmental challenges and reinforce ineffective efforts to avert ecological crises. So not the the AI bots aren't in favor of climate change.
00:03:20
Baker Plbg
And they're not they don't appear to be social justice warriors, which will upset a few people.
Powering AI: Challenges and Solutions
00:03:27
Baker Plbg
um They are also about considering incorporating advertising.
00:03:33
Baker Plbg
to generate revenue needed to train newer and more complex large language models. It's interesting that a bunch of the user agreements that you get on your on your apps on your phones, they're using those to sort of understand how people talk and use that as the language model so it can make it smarter.
00:03:53
Baker Plbg
And while it remains unclear what advertising will look like when integrated into chatt chat GPT, it is not difficult to see a world in which the description of climate change and its attendant solutions will be brought to you by none other than the good folks at ExxonMobil and Shell.
00:04:13
Baker Plbg
Like that's bananas. um That's going to be the bottleneck in my opinion. and why AI is not going to take over the world despite what Elon Musk hopes for.
00:04:30
Baker Plbg
He says that everybody's going have a robot here in the very
Economic Impact of Reopening Three Mile Island
00:04:33
Baker Plbg
near future. now They may have one, but how are you going to power it? um We're currently basically over our our electric electricity limits. and How are you going to it? Are you going to start doing nuclear? Maybe.
00:04:51
Baker Plbg
I don't, I think nuclear is a fabulous option, but there is a lot of public sentiment to overcome if you're going to start building and nuclear power plants. I cannot believe, I had not heard that anywhere before, um that they are reopening Three Mile Island. I'm going to dig, hang on one second.
00:05:15
Baker Plbg
We'll finish it up when I look into this. So it refers me to an article on NPR article um that's saying that Three Mile Island will reopen to power Microsoft's data centers, which is responsible for run the tech giants, cloud computing and artificial intelligence programs.
00:05:38
Baker Plbg
The deal will create 3,400 jobs and bring more than $3 billion dollars into the state and federal taxes according to Microsoft. And said the agreement will add $16 billion dollars to pennsylvaniaence Pennsylvania's GPT.
Media Coverage and Billionaire Influence
00:05:52
Baker Plbg
The agreement will span 20 years and the plant is expected to reopen in 2028. Why haven't we heard about that? Or have I? I don't know. Maybe it's just the problem is, is there's so much crap going on right now that you nobody has any idea on what the hell to pay attention to.
00:06:11
Baker Plbg
And of course, they quote Bill Gates in here ah prior to his ah his reveal of his Russian virus. Gross.
00:06:21
Baker Plbg
Anyway, ah and so that plant has been closed since March 28th, 1979. So that is an interesting on in this world.
00:06:32
Baker Plbg
Listen, man.
00:06:35
Baker Plbg
listen amen It's mad times. It's mad, mad times. I wish you guys all luck in whatever you do, navigating this crazy world that we found ourselves in, that we're all a part of. And hopefully we can come to some reasonable solutions and to the problems that exist.
00:06:53
Baker Plbg
And you know frankly, stop being quite so divided on party lines, on stuff that really doesn't matter. I think we've seen recently are intentionally done to drive confusion and so that these billionaire um billionaires and multi-billion yeah billion companies can do whatever the hell they want whenever the hell they want to do it as usual all are my thoughts not yours hit me up let's have a conversation um we're gonna go after this hardcore it's gonna start happening so i look forward to it we'll see on the next one till then listen to your mother