Tag: AI
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Takeaways, trends and notes from Green IO Paris 2025
I just got back to Berlin tonight after being at Green IO, a conference in Paris in its third year, that is dedicated to the fields of digital sustainability and Green IT. Before I forget, I figure it’s worth sharing a few takeaways from sifting through about a bajillion pics of slides, and all notes…
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Wow tech firms STILL need to report their revenue from oil and gas sector, even after reporting standards have been ‘simplified’?
In Europe, I’ve been tracking the passage of a set of reporting standards that a significant law, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) uses to layout precisely what a information large companies have to disclose. Even after an effort to gut reporting laws, it looks like companies STILL have to report their revenue from the…
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Even with proprietary GenAI models, you can influence the environmental impact of use through supplier choice
I came across an interesting paper, How Hungry is AI? Benchmarking Energy, Water, and Carbon Footprint of LLM Inference via a post on social media by a friend of mine, Asim Hussein, and one of the details surprised me enough to want to capture it here. What was worth writing down then? It’s on page…
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Google’s expenditure on AI is eye watering
Before I saw this chart, I knew that the hyperscalers had been spending huge amounts on datacentre infrastructure, but I had some vague idea that Amazon was spending the most, followed by Microsoft, then and Google. Boy was I wrong. Google has been outspending the other huge hyperscalers since 2018 This chart is from an…
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AI the tool vs AI the project
It’s the weekend, I’m trying to close down a bunch of tabs, and one tab I hadn’t realised I had open was this piece by Andy Masley about AI-generated images he’s been creating with Midjourney. Before it disappears into the either, I figured it was worth jotting a few thoughts down. Here’s the quote(s) that…
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Things you forget to ask when doing a podcast about AI power spikes and hardware standards
I’m sharing this here to come back to later, as I host a podcast called Environment Variables and I recently did an interview with some folks who are working on getting a standards group off the ground focussed on how datacentre hardware and software work together. There was one claim that during the interview I didn’t…
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Is the problem just GenAI?
I’m trying to make sense of some of the figures shared when we talk about the environmental impact of AI, and what the specific drivers of it are, in terms of the specific kinds of AI being deployed around the world. Here are some notes, and a request for help to point somekind of useful…
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On conflating different kinds of AI in the climate context
I’ve found myself looking for this quote 3 times this month, and LinkedIn is a real pain to use to find it, so I’m posting it here. This quote from David Rolnick, one of the founders of the non-profit Climate Change AI is a useful one to have handy, because its coming from someone with…
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Discovering Docling
A couple of years back, I started using a RSS reader again. I find it really useful for compiling notes for the CAT newsletter I’ve been editing and publishing most weeks, but I also end up with loads of links that are interesting, but do not fit. The first of hopefully a series of small…
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Will new models like DeepSeek reduce the direct environmental footprint of AI?
I’m in a chat at work, and recently this question came up: Are folks expecting a reduction in energy demands if DeepSeek-style models become dominant vs the ones you see from Open AI? I’ve paraphrased it slightly, but it’s an interesting question, so rather than obnoxiously share a long answer into that chat, I figured…