News Seagate suggests AI is causing a carbon crisis for the industry

[Admin]

Seagate has suggested that the tech industry is facing a "carbon crisis" as AI demands outpace the data storage field's ability to keep up.

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[SomeoneElse23]

"The need for data comes with a need for data storage."

Therein lies the problem.
We don't need AI.

 

[ejolson]

The way I see it AI has already become so smart that's it's impossible for people to assess how smart it really is.

On the other hand, there has to be some form of storage that is better than either SSD or HDD.

Since they're renewable and encourage growing more trees, maybe green washing could also make paper tapes and punch cards more marketable to environmental nerds.

 

[Co BIY]

Sounds like we need to assign some AI to the storage problem.

 

[Heiro78]

The way I see it AI has already become so smart that's it's impossible for people to assess how smart it really is.

On the other hand, there has to be some form of storage that is better than either SSD or HDD.

Since they're renewable and encourage growing more trees, maybe green washing could also make paper tapes and punch cards more marketable to environmental nerds.

Make tape mainstream again! It's not practical for day to day usage at datacenter but heck if it isn't cool

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Isn't this basically a repost of this one?

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...s-are-more-environmentally-friendly-than-ssds

 

[RiverDoggie]

A report in MIT Technology Review ( https://www.technologyreview.com/20...da-water-reno-computing-environmental-impact/ ) discusses the immense amount of potable fresh water that is evaporated for cooling of those data centers. One of the sources ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271 ) estimates worldwide water loss to evaporation at between 4.2 and 6.6 billion cubic meters annually by 2027. That's between 1.11 and 1.74 TRILLION GALLONS of clean drinking water evaporated to the atmosphere! Needless to say, this is unsustainable.