The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.
Generative video: Hold my beer.
Interesting stat from the Digital Decarbonisation calculator.
« One person creates 1.7mb of data a second. That equates to 10 full DVDs in a working day. »
Don’t know how old that number is, but imagine the exponential increase with more people starting to generate video.
https://digitaldecarb.org/digital-decarbonisation-calculator/