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- Energy
Posted on: 2025-02-25
Training and using ChatGPT uses a lot of energy, but exact numbers are tricky to pin down without data from OpenAI

As the capabilities and adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) continue to grow, so are its energy impacts. Training and ongoing use of AI models requires significant energy due to their use of data centers – one of the most energy-intensive building types.
- Energy
Posted on: 2025-01-23
Will solar panels overrun farmland? The two are more likely to coexist

Even if solar capacity continues to grow at unprecedented rates in the next several years, data suggests that the land used for solar panels will account for a small portion of the land used for agriculture.
- Climate
Posted on: 2024-11-13
Climate vs. weather: a deep dive on the key differences

A key difference is their timescales by which they’re defined: weather is monitored over days to weeks, and climate typically over decades or more. Online claims that use anecdotal evidence to claim that these climate changes are ‘normal’ either in the context of ‘when they grew up’ or as part of the ‘natural cycle’ are inaccurate.