LOCOS Seminar – Thomas Fricke: “Resource Consumption of Data Centers and AI”

Low Carbon Computing Seminar

Thomas Fricke will deliver their talk “Resource Consumption of Data Centers and AI”

Not only the energy consumption of AI is exploding. Less known is that other resources like water or metal are also affected. The talk gives an overview on the devastating impact of data centers on our environment. Degrowth scenarios seem to be the only way to escape from this ecological nightmare.
Summarizing the known facts and serious predictions the talk gives an overview on the upcoming possible and impossible scenarios of the energy and resource consumptions. Even if predictions are not easy economical and ecological limits are discussed. Finally, degrowth will be discussed. Can we degrow data centers without loosing too much of our digital life? How much can be saved using alternative technologies?
What alternatives do we have? Saving some resources might easier than you think!

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