AI Data Centers Emission and Power Integration

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    Can AI data centers create a new kind of carbon emission? Apparently, because of the amount of energy that data centers take to power, that are called high-performance computing resources, take new heights of carbon emissions and struggles in environment sustainability. It has made such an impact, that a study that is linked here, is about the deficiency factors of power and productivity, and the toll it take on renewable energy sources that already exist. 

    These high-performance computing systems (or HPC) are for super computers, and the article goes into the purposes for these computers, mainly data science outside of artificial intelligence. While having the ability to have a cloud for data and important code in computer science, the carbon footprint of having many of these data centers will further deteriorate the earth with the amount of climate change caused by big corporations for products that are not as significant for humanity. 

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