Air Pollution and the Public Health Costs of AI

 

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With the growing adoption of large language models, such as OpenAI's ChatGPT, the enormous environmental footprint of artificial intelligence, or AI, is increasingly in the news. This cost is often discussed in terms of electricity consumed, carbon released into the atmosphere, and water needed to operate massive data centers.