News AI poses a threat to the planet

[sysop]

I read this very interesting article about AI and how it's turning out to be a threat to the planet, but not for the reason you might think.

Link: https://www.rt.com/india/590343-ai-cloud...footprint/

A snippet from the article:

An article in the MIT Technology Review says the life cycle for training common large AI models has a significant environmental impact, reporting that “the entire process can emit more than 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent—nearly five times the lifetime emissions of the average American car (and that includes the manufacture of the car itself).”