Findings from this week's UN report on AI vs climate:
🌿 80-90% is not in training models, but in day-to-day use.
🌿 Generating an image is 1450⨉ more energy intensive than text, generating video much worse.
🌿 We need to monitor water and land footprint, as well as carbon.
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By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns
