“Each time you search for something like “how many rocks should I eat” and Google’s AI “snapshot” tells you “at least one small rock per day,” you’re consuming approximately three watt-hours of electricity.”
While the mass adoption of AI has transformed digital life seemingly overnight, regulators have fallen asleep on the job in curtailing AI data centers’ drain on energy and water resources.
It would be a shame if this site was filled with news stories about child molesting pastors and cops. Each backed up with news stories and court dates. Demanding that government dive an actual problem.
Indiana AG's new "report a teacher" portal is truly something else. Not only can people upload "supporting documentation", but there's a curated collection of those documents for users to browse. It's a state funded website to facilitate targeted hate campaigns. www.in.gov/attorneygene...
The Justices will get yearly training on how to not do all the stuff Thomas did www.supremecourt.gov/about/Code-o...
If you are a senator asking the Justice Department to investigate an internet rumor, maybe check it first. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Sen. Tom Cotton called for a DOJ investigation based on a conservative website’s speculation.
'Don McCullin -A lone anti-war protester confronts police in Whitehall during the Cuban Missile Crisis, London, 1962 '
Dear Whole Foods aka Amazon: Absolutely fucking not who do you think you are who do you think I am and also how fucking dare you. (If you give Amazon your handprint you’re a fucking sucker.)