AI's environmental impact raises growing concerns

[AJStyles]

It reminds me of early conversations about cryptocurrency. At first, people ignored the energy cost, then suddenly it became a major talking point.

AI might be heading down a similar path, just with more practical benefits attached.

[Ava82]

There is a cultural factor too. The more we normalize instant answers for everything, the more compute demand grows quietly in the background.

It is not visible like a factory, so people do not instinctively associate it with environmental cost.