The Lab Mistake That Might Revolutionize Computing

Summary

Today, you probably asked a question of a large language model, or accepted a connection suggestion on LinkedIn, or watched a recommended video on YouTube, or took a different route to work based on a traffic prediction from Google Maps. In other words, you probably used artificial intelligence. But what you might not know is how much energy that interaction consumed or why. AI requires processing massive amounts of data, which is usually done in large data centers populated by thousands of GPUs

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