Artificial intelligence devours energy, so can companies do anything to lessen the damage that it is doing?
Ecocem founder Donal O’Riain, The company uses AI to help run machinery in plants with a claimed reduction of around half in CO2 output
AI has risen to top of the agenda in business tech, with most Irish organisations saying that they’ll invest in it somehow.
But it comes with a hefty environmental price. A simple ChatGPT question uses about the same amount of energy as a few minutes’ illumination from an LED light bulb.
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