• miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The huge energy needs are… yeah

    There was an article in our newspaper not long ago about the possibility of using AI to optimize the CO2 footprint of concrete.

    Like, everyone was suuuper into it, and it genuinely did a good job at what they needed it to do. But actually using this at a large scale throws the benefits completely out of the window in terms of raw energy consumption to even run it.