This week host Chris Adams is joined by Asim Hussain and Environment Variables regular Sara Bergman to discuss the hidden costs of generative AI. What’s really at the tip of this iceberg and how far down does it go? They also discuss just how thirsty AI chatbots really are and developments in platform engineering. Finally, we share some opportunities for development from the world of green software.

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News:
AI Chatbots Guzzle Enormous Amounts of Water, Study Finds: / Evening Standard [3:16] [ Ссылка ]
Two-phase cooling will be hit by EPA rules and 3M's exit from PFAS "forever chemicals" / DCD [9:35] [ Ссылка ]
The Mounting Human and Environmental Costs of Generative AI: / Ars Technica [15:02] [ Ссылка ]
ChatGPT: Mayor starts legal bid over false bribery claim / BBC [20:29] [ Ссылка ]
Free Dolly: Introducing the World's First Truly Open Instruction-Tuned LLM / DataBricks [25:19] [ Ссылка ]
How Platform Engineering Makes Software Sustainable: / Devops.com [30:43] [ Ссылка ]

Resources:
How much water do data centers use? / David Mytton [8:10] [ Ссылка ]
Making AI Less “Thirsty”: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models / Back Market / UC Riverside & UT Arlington [9:28] [ Ссылка ]
Jevon’s Paradox / Wikipedia [14:24] [ Ссылка ]
The AI Iceberg / Ars Technica [22:54] [ Ссылка ]
Simon Willison’s Blog about Dolly [25:37] [ Ссылка ]
Breaking the code of silence: what we learned from content moderators at the landmark Berlin summit / Foxglove [28:03] [ Ссылка ]
Holly Cummins from Red Hat’s Speech at QCon London 2023 [32:34] [ Ссылка ]

Events:
Meetup on How to measure energy consumption of software (April 24, Virtual) / Green Coding Berlin [35:11] [ Ссылка ]
Microsoft India’s Green Software Development Hackathon (March 21 – April 24, 2023 • Virtual): [36:13] [ Ссылка ]
GreenTech Southwest Meetup (April 20, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm • Bristol & Virtual): / Green Web Foundation [ Ссылка ]

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