RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware - https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html

New blog post about the #SmolPhone (our take on #FrugalComputing): I gave a short talk about it, and decided to write the things I usually say. It's here: https://people.irisa.fr/Martin.Quinson/blog/250528/Smolphone-Magellan/

I think that the result is a nice introduction to the project. Please comment and tell us what you think of it!

Now, that 10x growth is not what OpenAI, Dell etc want. No, they want 100x growth.

For what that would mean:

https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/the-real-problem-with-AI/#what-about-a-hundred-times-growth

#FrugalComputing

Global GHG emissions are 57.1 GtCO2e/y (2023 figure; probably 1-2% more now).

So there's two ways to look at this:

(1) The apologist: So even if AI results in extra emissions of 4 GtCO2e/y (*) by 2035, that is less than 7%, surely that is not an issue.
(2) The climate reality: to stay below 1.5ºC the global CO2 budget for 2035 is 25 GtCO2e/y. Sacrificing 16% of that for AI growth is madness.

https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024
(*) my estimate based on 10x AI growth in 10y

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"We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next."

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/

#FrugalComputing #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI

@jbqueru I do agree in that we need more #FrugalComputing options.

• If I really wanted and needed to I could do my work on an #EeePC701 or a Vaio #P11Z and I think these devices have still potential to be used.

That's why I started @OS1337:
https://os1337.com

#OS1337

This is looking ever worse

"UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon boss"

Likely outcome: the nuclear projects will be vastly over time and over budget, forcing the use of fossil fuel generation to power all those data centres, because prioritising nuclear means deprioritising renewables.

[I removed the claim about profitability as it is disputed and muddles the waters.]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewd5014wpno

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The calculations in my article are done using a proper Life Cycle Analysis model with the best data on embodied emissions available in the literature.

I don't use the energy consumption of the actual models, that is a distraction. Data centre capacity is expressed in GW, I used the projections of growth of AI data centres from various sources. That provides an aggregate picture of the growth of energy use and emissions.

All references are in the article.

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Free tier ChatGPT access is the driver for adoption and growth. The kind of growth the AI companies want is nothing short of disastrous.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/the-real-problem-with-AI/

So don't come and tell me your personal ChatGPT use doesn't matter.

#FrugalComputing

Just imagine what would happen to OpenAI if everybody stopped using ChatGPT tomorrow (and mutatis mutandis for other providers of similar services).
#FrugalComputing

At #locaverdi, we believe that #IT needs to be put on an energy diet. Our world does not need more computational power, or #AI. Conserving energy and resources is vital to a healthy and liveable planet. #efficiency should be a main focus point in #developing #software and #hardware. #frugalcomputing. Do more with less energy and resources. Just that.

@fristi_ebooks use a #fanless #ThinClient as a #Server?

#Reuse #FrugalComputing #MiniServer

From that perspective, this is worth a re-read

https://hackernoon.com/carbon-aware-computing-next-green-breakthrough-or-new-greenwashing

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RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware - https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware - https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html

@nixCraft The problem is not that people say thank you, the problem is that they use ChatGPT in the first place.

This thing is an abomination on so many levels. I focus on the environmental one:

https://wimvanderbauwhede.codeberg.page/articles/the-real-problem-with-AI/

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RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware - https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html

RSS Podcast Feed Inefficiency - Climate cost of handling feeds ineptly... #RSS #podcast #FrugalComputing #LowCarbonComputing #greenSoftware - https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html

"#Flow was made entirely with #Blender and rendered with EEVEE. Each frame took from about 0.5 – 10 seconds to render in 4k. We didn’t use a renderfarm. The final render was done on my PC. There was no compositing, all the colors were tweaked and adjusted using shaders."

Nice to see some #frugalComputing in theatrical #3D #animation, intentional or not. :neofox_uwu:

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/making-flow-an-interview-with-director-gints-zilbalodis/