“Eric Schmidt”, the former CEO of Google, said in his latest ierview that investme in the creation of artificial ielligence infrastructure should be increased; Because we are not going to achieve the set climate goals.
According to Business Insider, Eric Schmidt, who was prese at the artificial ielligence conference in Washington on Tuesday, preseed his ideas about the future of artificial ielligence. In addition to being the CEO of Google between 2001 and 2011, Schmidt was also the head of the US National Security Commission in the field of artificial ielligence. So far, he has made some coroversial commes about the state of artificial ielligence developme in America.
Eric Schmidt doesn’t worry much about artificial ielligence and its impact on the future
According to the former CEO of Google, there are many ways to curb the negative effects of artificial ielligence on the environme, such as using better batteries and power lines to build data ceers. But Schmidt also believes that the rapid developme of artificial ielligence will eveually overtake all these measures.
Asked whether AI’s energy needs could be met without compromising environmeal goals, Schmidt said we’re not going to meet climate goals anyway; Because we are not organized to achieve them. “The requiremes are definitely going to be a problem, but I’d rather focus on AI solving problems than limiting it and having problems,” he coinued.
The boom in artificial ielligence has caused a significa increase in investme in the construction of data ceers that provide the computing power needed to train and run artificial ielligence models. But this immense developme consumes a large amou of natural resources. According to McKinsey research, data ceers are expected to consume 35 gigawatts of electricity annually by 2030. This amou was only 17 gigawatts last year.
The US governme has ambitious plans to eliminate carbon pollution from the coury’s energy sector by 2035. But according to the curre trend and the need for fossil fuels to power data ceers, achieving the set goals seems far from expected.
