Silent power guzzlers: Switzerland’s booming data centres
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Data centres are popping up across Switzerland, driven in part by demand for AI. They come at a cost: by 2030, the centres could consume 15% of the country’s electricity.
Swiss universities to release multilingual AI programme
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This summer researchers at Swiss universities will make available a large language model (LLM), an AI programme trained on vast amounts of data, developed on public infrastructure.
Swiss Reddit study on fake news stirs ethics debate
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A controversial fake news study on the social media platform Reddit, has highlighted the ethical challenges of conducting research on society.
Data centres use four times more electricity than average
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The power consumption of data centres, used in particular for AI, is four times higher than average, warns the International Telecommunication Union.
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