{"id":1768,"date":"2021-01-01T22:35:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/?p=1768"},"modified":"2021-01-01T22:37:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T03:37:17","slug":"is-artificial-intelligence-a-blessing-or-a-curse-for-the-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/2021\/01\/01\/is-artificial-intelligence-a-blessing-or-a-curse-for-the-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Artificial Intelligence A Blessing Or A Curse For The Environment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>\u201cIn the past few years, as AI usage has grown, its energy consumption and carbon emissions have become an environmental concern,\u201d writes Ben Dickson, a software engineer, tech blogger, in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/ai-could-save-the-world-if-it-doesnt-ruin-the-environment-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>PC Magazine<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yannis Paschalidis, Director of Boston University\u2019s Center for Information and Systems Engineering, is featured in the story, discussing ways to create\u00a0 e<span>nergy-efficient AI hardware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Paschalidis proposes a better integration of data centers and energy grids, which he describes as \u201cdemand-response\u201d models. \u2018The idea is to coordinate with the grid to reduce or increase consumption on-demand, depending on electricity supply and demand. This helps utilities better manage the grid and integrate more renewables into the production mix\u2026 The smart integration of power grids and AI data centers, Paschalidis says, will help manage the intermittency of renewable energy sources while also reducing the need to have too much stand-by capacity in dormant electricity plants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full PC Magazine story<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/news\/ai-could-save-the-world-if-it-doesnt-ruin-the-environment-first\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn the past few years, as AI usage has grown, its energy consumption and carbon emissions have become an environmental concern,\u201d writes Ben Dickson, a software engineer, tech blogger, in\u00a0PC Magazine.\u00a0 Yannis Paschalidis, Director of Boston University\u2019s Center for Information and Systems Engineering, is featured in the story, discussing ways to create\u00a0 energy-efficient AI hardware. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10488,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/paschalidis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}