Yet another reason LLM/AI is a terrible thing:

theregister.com/2024/10/28/gen…

"GenAI is set to create nearly 1,000 times more e-waste (in data centres) than exists currently by 2030, unless the tech industry employs mitigating strategies."

"The study, which looks at the rate AI servers are being introduced to datacenters, claims that a realistic scenario indicates potential for rapid growth of e-waste from 2.6 kilotons each year in 2023 to between 400 kilotons and 2.5 million tons each year in 2030, when no waste reduction measures are considered."

"...equivalent to discarding 13.3 billion units of the iPhone 15 Pro"

#LLM #AI #LLMs

GenAI's dirty secret: It's set to create a mountainous increase in e-waste

New modelling shows tech could massively increase current volumes of electronic landfill by 2030

^{Lindsay Clark (The Register)}