Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

Europe has to decide which is important to them. This time, both AI and climate change are mutually exclusive.

At least there are efficient alternatives to Bitcoin which are environmentally friendly and cost far less to scale, meaning there is no need to build more data centers for more performance.

LLMs require significantly more compute even for the basic usage and that comes with building tens of thousands of data centers, which even that is not enough to scale up.

There are no efficient alternatives to LLMs that consume significantly less resources and to be as useful with the same quality or better than the frontier models available today and serve millions of requests daily.

you could always skip the indoor heating