Artificial intelligence is energy-hungry and as companies race to make it bigger, smarter and more complex, its thirst for electricity will increase even further. This sets up a thorny problem for an …
What Nvidia’s new Blackwell chip says about AI’s carbon footprint problem
The biggest show in AI this week is Nvidia’s GTC developer conference in San Jose, Calif. At GTC yesterday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang unveiled the company’s newest graphics processing unit (GPU), the …
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Every Bitcoin payment ‘uses a swimming pool of water’
Every Bitcoin transaction uses, on average, enough water to fill "a backyard swimming pool", a new study suggests. That's around six million times more than is used in a typical credit card swipe, …
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Impact of industrial robots on environmental pollution: evidence from China
The application of industrial robots is considered a significant factor affecting environmental pollution. Selecting industrial wastewater discharge, industrial SO2 emissions and industrial soot …
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