How big is AI's carbon footprint?

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@suyashyadav7827 4 ай бұрын

limit AI on healthcare, technology and agriculture only

@okanime1 4 ай бұрын

It's quite pedantic how modern journalism tends to repackage old issues as new. Take the segment on AI's carbon footprint, for example. This issue isn't unique to AI but pertains to cloud computing in general, similar to the scrutiny crypto faced during its peak. Perhaps the real conversation should be about computing in a more environmentally conscious way. This video itself, hosted on KZbin, consumes energy from KZbin's infrastructure, just as the BBC's hosting contributes to the carbon footprint. But, tossing 'AI' into a title does seem to boost clicks, doesn't it? Also, I'd push back on the comment made by the speaker from Hugging Face about not trusting tech companies building their own power plants: coming from a country grappling with severe energy shortages, I wouldn't be opposed to tech giants investing in energy, considering how much of it they use.

@maxheadrom3088 3 ай бұрын

Yes ... but we can live without LLMs but we can't live withour databases.

@katiecalvert9143 3 ай бұрын

@@maxheadrom3088 ...hmmmm for not much longer

@briansprock2248 4 ай бұрын

I'm just beginning to listen. The 'At what cost' quesion sticks out from my perspecticlve. Do we remember the people and the working conditions?

@ianhorsham7751 4 ай бұрын

We are so obsessed with technology that we would cover all farmers fields with solar panels so that we can starve while checking the news on our phones. I think the AI is already in charge and its no better than those that came before it. The AI will claim that "They were so bad that the crowd was still booing them when we came on!".

@Kabab 4 ай бұрын

This does sound like an awful future and would makes sense except that if we just covered a landmass the size of New Mexico in the Sahara desert, we could power the entire world three or four times over at our current power usage. Of course there are huge challenges with doing this but it's not something that is unachievable. There are also some long-term ecological possibilities but not even remotely as bad as the crap we're doing now. Even better, a space solar array...some added challenges but again, not impossible

@artlewellan2294 4 ай бұрын

@@Kabab Oh shut up! Solar PV panel arrays are ideally located on rooftops and in neighborhood mini-grids. Vast solar "field arrays" require long-distance transmission lines tied to complex regional utility grids, both of which remain vulnerable to power outage and must "invert" their DC output to high voltage AC and then rectify back to DC to charge EV battery packs. Go hard sell your BS to corporate entities who are in it for the money.

@davthesav 4 ай бұрын

But solar panels would be better than huge coal power plants that make pollution

@paulr1125 3 ай бұрын

AI will massively increase the worlds carbon footprint by its massive consumption of electricity , the majority of which is generated from unecological sources . Also there will be a massive increase in electricity used for cooling computers etc

@CovidEraCaveman 4 ай бұрын

How big is Broadcast Media carbon footprint? And entirely unessential. At least AI is useful to me. You people are not. And i mean ALL the channels.

@skymanifest8339 4 ай бұрын

Spot on. The sickening hypocrits at the BBC are notoriously wasteful. Recently, they flew one journalist 20,000 miles around the globe to film a half-hour documentary about climate change that hardly anyone watched.

@JohnRCWilson 4 ай бұрын

4:42, you’d think the reunification of Ireland would have been more prominent news.

@elvisngenoh7855 4 ай бұрын

Inakaa Advert ya Microsoft

@BibhatsuKuiri 4 ай бұрын

i dont undestand why that is a problem. Big projects require bigresources. maybe govt. can ask them to plant trees etc. else i dont understand the point of the video. for example, your channel also runs on electricity, right ? so should you stop BBC

@sayanweshakabir8974 4 ай бұрын

It's not about energy consumption it's all about the type of energy being consumed and for what !!!! If the energy consumed is largely based on renewable energy they have lesser carbon footprint.... There is a trade off Between technology and sustainability, however big projects as you mentioned requires big resources???? Ask yourself the question at what cost these MNCs are powering themselves, how they are producing the big projects, what type of resources they are using, how much of energy is simply required to just extract rare earths elements from the earth (again this is also limited in amount), how much of waste is generated, how much of energy is emitted in terms of carbon emissions to reduce these wastes.... Ask the proper questions to have your answers.... How many plants need to be planted and nurtured and literally being grown into trees to support one big project....???? Where do you think the trees would be planted if there are lesser available places to plant those trees with all the human encroaching into forest lands????

@gmenezesdea 3 ай бұрын

Resources are finite. There is only one planet.

@M3.Lorenzo 4 ай бұрын

How Big is BBC's carbon footprint? .....

@Isclachau 4 ай бұрын

Nearly as big as the illegal tax they get for people stupid enough to continue to pay the TV licence.

@wobblybobengland 4 ай бұрын

MASSIVE, most of it for frivolous rubbish too

@MoldyMcdonut 4 ай бұрын

Wow good thing i know this sense i can do absolutely nothing about it its tech giants and they couldnt give any craps about it.

@daviddonovan425 4 ай бұрын

hmmm... Wrong, wrong wrong... No way to differentiate between AI and IT technologies!

@kinngrimm 4 ай бұрын

One factor i was wondering about in this context, google and others have put their datacenters into the ocean to safe up on cost to cool those suckers down. Still heat is produced and given up into the ocean. How much is that, what is its effect on the environment? The last gimp should have noticed by now that we have more heatwaves, so more heat into the ocean when the corals are dying in droves seems not so environmental friendly either.

@mikemhz 4 ай бұрын

It might affect local water temperature but it have no significant impact on global ocean temperatures. That's because the Sun adds more energy to the Earth in one hour than human civilisation uses in one year. Greenhouse gasses, however, amplify the sun's heat by trapping it at the surface for longer.

@kinngrimm 4 ай бұрын

@kq_10 Fair enough, but it could do without the tone. So you are telling me that not even locally there is no way that these contribute to increased temperatures that could lead to corals dying of? If if say locally there would be multiple of these installed and their dimensions would increase due to their success?

@lifeinaustralia6415 4 ай бұрын

Sadly it isn't the news but videos of cats or halfwit influences plucking their nasal hair out. :(

@kinngrimm 4 ай бұрын

@@pathmada I never said i could comprehend, hence why i said i was wondering and why i asked. What buffles me though is people coming in a tone at me like they know that much more or better and be more intelligent. I at least can admit to where i lack knowlege and when i have more knowledge in other areas i try not to rub it under anyonce noses. It seems to me that people like you give credence to the Dunning Krueger effect.

@adambrickley1119 4 ай бұрын

Not even like putting a match out in your bath (probably)@@kinngrimm

@RandyOmski 4 ай бұрын

THE INTERNETS THE WORST PLACE IN OUR WORLD 🌎

@artlewellan2294 4 ай бұрын

Scientists are now saying, "The longer we stare at our cell phones, the greater the danger of becoming a zombie."

@artlewellan2294 4 ай бұрын

Only the very smartest people can truly understand just how smart the emperor's new smart phone is.

@Rich_ard42 4 ай бұрын

I think this show is the best thing the BBC does at the moment

@wobblybobengland 4 ай бұрын

BBC's carbon footprint absolutely fossilfuel¹⁰

@XxTheAwokenOnexX 4 ай бұрын

Mining Mercury for it's metal's would be more sustainable, and kinder to earth, and that is a highly profitable space race waiting to happen 👍

@conunpocodefe 4 ай бұрын

People can be charged per thousand queries. Frivolous usage will disappear.

@NewsCambodiaOfficial 4 ай бұрын

What is AI?

@straycat5695 4 ай бұрын

Artificial Intelligence 😊

@NewsCambodiaOfficial 4 ай бұрын

@@straycat5695 Understood

@georgenorris2657 4 ай бұрын

Blissful ignorance

@NewsCambodiaOfficial 4 ай бұрын

@@georgenorris2657 Thank you

@davthesav 4 ай бұрын

You like 60 or something?

@SIMARJEETMEHTA 4 ай бұрын

At the initial stage the carbon footprint can be high, but as the technologies develop, AI will use less and less energy. In a few years energy will be a non-issue.

@GrandpaVince 4 ай бұрын

Al pacinos carbon print is probably big as he flies everywhere in his jet yelling hoo ha

@PearlRubyJasper 4 ай бұрын

this guest is brilliant... honest guy

@skymanifest8339 4 ай бұрын

Brought to you by the broadcasting organisation that flew one journalist 20,000 around the globe to discuss climate change for a documentary that no one watched.

@davealaya 4 ай бұрын

Elizier Yudkowsky warned AI could kill us all to maximize its own energy resources. "Yea, I'm gonna go ahead and need 100% of the water on the planet, sorry guys." -A.I.

@joshuahjfarquharm.3269 4 ай бұрын

@davealaya 4 ай бұрын

Good thing you had Chris on in addition to Sasha; she was insufferable.

@joshuajames1720 4 ай бұрын

love this section out any any bbc section. well thought out, interesting and Christian is genuinely great! nice work BBC

@skymanifest8339 4 ай бұрын

Hello BBC employee.

@joshuajames1720 4 ай бұрын

@@skymanifest8339 but he is really great in my opinion, and a great piece! its not propoganda, be grateful for that!

@geoffbirchall7552 4 ай бұрын

@@joshuajames1720 did you write your own article for the BBC🙄

@joshuajames1720 4 ай бұрын

@@geoffbirchall7552 if you had a brain cell that was still operational you may just find something to learn. you brain washed dope

@issiewizzie 4 ай бұрын

Captain "we need more power"

@patrickcollins8048 4 ай бұрын

If AI can do the work of a small country, then it shouldn’t come as a surprise that it uses the same amount of energy 😅

@MartinPHE 4 ай бұрын

BBC carbon footprint is globally 21:52 Minutes of my computer running to display all this complaining of use of computer running. Hypocrite

@ValdezJu 4 ай бұрын

I hope Apple is paying through the nose for using the 1971 hit, "All I Ever Need Is You" [Holiday/Reeves] by Sony and Cher! How old is Tim Cook anyway?

@chhunmab 4 ай бұрын

Good👍

@Eurydice870 4 ай бұрын

I knew that crypto currency was bad, but this is news. Time to take down the apps, curb consumption. I'd be a better person.

@和也三田 4 ай бұрын

British English🇬🇧

@CamNews-bt2du 4 ай бұрын

I think AI is so important nowadays. How do you think friends?

@カヲルシンジ 4 ай бұрын

AI AI AI AI immortality

@henaimtiyaz4189 4 ай бұрын

So much hype around AI when it is associated with misuse and has flaws. Technologies such as AI can be an immediate solution but not a long term solution to existing disasters we're facing whether environmentally, socially or otherwise.Repercussions are evident and cannot be overlooked.

@lukemorgan6166 4 ай бұрын

Ai for the elites None for you

@fishler1 4 ай бұрын

Who carers

@zelani7 4 ай бұрын

Lailaha illallah Muhammad rasoolillah ❤

@ValdezJu 4 ай бұрын

OMG! How funny is Vlad in diapers?

@tristanlim-mz3zy 4 ай бұрын

So be it.

@elliottgotaheadache1217 4 ай бұрын

money

@batchint 4 ай бұрын

handbags at dawn…

@RiadAhmed-ce6qo 4 ай бұрын

you are running your C++ on the system direct and Python on VM ware 😁 did you honestly running both on the same platform answer is NO.... C++ on the Linux environment and your VM ware you run your python. So I think delay was not correct. python use third party compiler as well to execute fast.