Google says the median Gemini app text prompt consumes 0.24Wh of energy, about the same as running a microwave for a second, and emits 0.03g of CO2 equivalent
an official report confirms that Gemini consumes per query: — 0.24 Wh of energy (~9 seconds of TV) — 0.03 g of CO2 equivalent — 0.26 ml of water (about 5 drops) — blog: cloud.google.com/blog/prod...
Google releases a study saying a median Gemini text prompt uses 0.26mm of water and produces ~0.03g of CO2; critics: omitting indirect water use is misleading
Google shared a study of Gemini's environmental impact, but it omits some key data. … Amid a fierce debate about the environmental toll …
Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's partnership with Aramco, how quantum AI can help turn captured CO2 into valuable products, and more
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In July, Google changed how its Flights tool calculates emissions to exclude all global warming impacts except CO2, understating flight emissions by nearly half
after consultations with the airline industry. https://twitter.com/...
Amazon says its 2021 carbon footprint rose 18% YoY and 40% from 2019 to ~71.54M metric tons of CO2 equivalent, despite its plans to be “net zero carbon” by 2040
Matt Day / Bloomberg :
Meta open sources its AI translation model, which works across 200 languages, as part of its ambitious R&D project to create a “universal speech translator”
helping editors to make more information available in under-represented languages. (1/2) https://ai.facebook.com/... @wiki_early_life : If AI Fairness researchers were serious they would spend more ti...
A look at the emergence of Kentucky as a small bitcoin mining powerhouse; an estimate says Kentucky produces more CO2 from crypto mining than any other US state
a few months later, he incorporated his own mining business. I took a road trip through Kentucky, where the bitcoin industry is making a big push: https://longreads.trust.org/ ... Chris Polansky / @ch...
An EU Parliament committee rejects a provision for its Markets in Crypto Assets framework that would have effectively banned proof-of-work cryptocurrencies
Dubai recently adopted a law to regulate the crypto sector. Good for you! Scott Chipolina / Decrypt : EU Votes 32-23 Against ‘De Facto Bitcoin Mining Ban’ Kevin Helms / Bitcoin News : EU Parliament C...
As it launches new green initiatives, Amazon says its carbon footprint rose 15% YoY in 2019, emitting 51.17M metric tons of CO2, up from 44.4M the year before
Joseph Pisani / Associated Press :
New York power plant sets up its own Bitcoin mining operation, with ~7K crypto miners, using “behind-the-meter” electricity to generate ~5.5 Bitcoins per day
"zero cost". https://twitter.com/... Harpreet Singh / @harry_jerry : This is a good idea for power plants with a surplus https://twitter.com/... Seth Weintraub / @llsethj : This is disgusting. Cuomo's...