2025’s AI boom caused huge CO2 emissions and use of water, research finds

Study’s author says society not tech companies paying for environmental impact of AI and asks if this is fair

The AI boom has caused as much carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere in 2025 as emitted by the whole of New York City, it has been claimed.

The global environmental impact of the rapidly spreading technology has been estimated in research published on Wednesday which also found that AI-related water use now exceeds the entirety of global bottled-water demand.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/18/2025-ai-boom-huge-co2-emissions-use-water-research-finds

#fuckAI #AI #Gemini #ChatGPT #Grok #DeepSeak #artificialintelligence #climate #environment

Estos trabajadores saben cómo funciona la IA y piden a sus amigos y familiares que no la usen: “Es un ‘no’ rotundo”

Los expertos avisan de que, cuando las personas que hacen que la IA parezca fiable son las que menos confían en ella, es señal de que la rapidez para sacar nuevos modelos prima sobre la seguridad

https://www.eldiario.es/tecnologia/trabajadores-funciona-ia-piden-amigos-familiares-no-usen-no-rotundo_1_12791733.html

#IA #noIA #grok #gemini #deepseak #chatgpt

#Deepseak App wegen #DSGVO in #Deutschland gesperrt:

https://www.borncity.com/blog/2025/07/20/deepseek-ai-apps-in-deutschland-wegen-datenuebermittlung-nach-china-blockiert/

Lots of folks spreading warnings: Oh, careful what you type into DeepSeek! It might be spying on you for the communist Chinese government.

But really, if someone is gonna be spying on me, would I rather it was:

* the Chinese communist party who have essentially no affect or influence over my life at all and are based half a world away

or

* western capitalist corporations who try to control everything I see and hear and push adverts in my face and bribe my government and affect my life in ways innumerable and uncountable?

⚖️ 🤷

I mean I'd rather none of them were allowed or able to spy on me but if someone has to...

#deepSeak #ai #spyware