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Explore the environmental and human rights implications of the AI boom in this 39-minute conference talk from the Chaos Communication Congress (38C3). Learn about the massive computational demands and energy consumption of generative AI, forcing tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta to revise their climate goals and consider controversial nuclear power solutions. Examine how Big Tech companies both develop AI applications and provide the necessary cloud infrastructure, leading to worldwide protests against mining projects, chip factories, and hyperscale data centers. Discover how increasing energy, water, and resource consumption fuels the climate crisis, threatens ecosystems, and violates indigenous land rights - all in pursuit of Big Tech's projected billions in profits. Gain critical insights and analytical tools to understand the ecological costs of the AI hype, presented by Friederike Karla Hildebrandt and Constanze Kurz.
