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Generative AI could cause 10 billion iPhones’ worth of e-waste per year by 2030
The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste equivalent of over 10 billion
The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste equivalent of over 10 billion iPhones per year by 2030, researchers project. In a paper published in the journal Nature, researchers from Cambridge University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences take a shot at predicting just how much e-waste this growing industry could produce. Image Credits: Wang et alNow admittedly, using 2023 as a starting metric is maybe a little misleading: Because so much of the computing infrastructure was deployed over the last two years, the 2.6 kiloton figure doesn’t include them as waste.
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