What do ChatGPT's AI-powered answers cost the environment?

What do ChatGPT's AI-powered answers cost the environment?

Artificial intelligence is dangerous. But the main risk may not be the one popularised by Hollywood—a malevolent superintelligence bent on destroying humanity. Instead, AI itself could be benign, but its insatiable appetite for energy and growing carbon footprint could present a far greater threat: the acceleration of wildfires, floods, extreme weather and all of the dangers that come with climate change.

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