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Generative AI could cause 10 billion iPhones' worth of e-waste per year by 2030 (techcrunch.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by BrikoX to c/apple

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The immense and quickly advancing computing requirements of AI models could lead to the industry discarding the e-waste equivalent of more than 10 billion iPhones per year by 2030, researchers project.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Don't worry, your tax dollars will be given as free money to these companies to pay for their electrical consumption. If the grid starts to fail, you will be cutoff so they can keep doing whatever the hell ai does.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Those are some big ass phones in that picture.