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AI is increasing workloads not shrinking them | Paris Marx

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Show Notes

“If there’s a real threat from AI on the existential scale, it’s from the emissions.”

Tech journalist and author of Hyperscale Paris Marx joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to talk about the physical impact data centers are having on the world and how the biggest threat from AI is not killer robots or Skynet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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