Is AI an Ally of the Climate, or a Growing Ecological Catastrophe?

An attempt to answer a question that isn't asked often enough.

Like me, you're well aware of the mantra propagated for years.

You need to turn off your computer. You need to stop printing unnecessarily. You've got to clean out your mailbox to limit its volume. These gestures are designed to make you feel less guilty about your environmental impact at work, and indeed in your private life.

And yet, no one tells you about your inopportune searches on ChatGPT.

You've already got into the habit of using ChatGPT indiscriminately to summarize a document, or to plan your next vacation - for which you'll be flying, of course!

So what about ChatGPT?

In a few days' time, ChatGPT will be celebrating its second birthday. I'm not going to introduce you to this conversational robot based on generative AI. The same generative AI that has propelled Big Tech into a new race of innovation. Since generative AI became the Next Big Thing, the sector's stock market valuations have soared and investments are pouring in.

Nvidia has even managed to dethrone all the Big Techs, one after the other, to become the world's most highly-valued company ahead of Apple: