Earlier, I wrote about Generative AI water and power use. I keep trying to rationalize its use in the context of our personal use of electricity and gas, which is far less than any of our neighbours (at least half as much use). Our personal impact on the environment drives us: we recycle everything, conserve…

Image generated using Gemini The Problem Many students, in my University of Victoria edtech course (EDCI 336), expressed a high degree of concern about the power consumption of GenAI server farms. They cited publications such as the 2024 paper, The Climate and Sustainability Implications of Generative AI, indicating that GenAI clusters consume seven or eight…