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Why your AI questions are a power and water drain

Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:13:04
Publish Date: 2025-06-29 16:00:00
Description:

How often do you use AI chatbots?  

They’re becoming part of our everyday lives. But when you pump in a question into something like ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, do you ever think about the energy it uses? 

Today, Gordon Noble from the Institute of Sustainable Futures at UTS on the power hungry data centres driving AI, the water used to keep them cool and the cost for the environment. 

Featured: 

Gordon Noble, research director at the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney

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