As generative artificial intelligence continues its colonization of the digital world, from search engines to software, concerns are being raised about its energy consumption: the data centers that train and run genAI models are power hogs. A December U.S. Department of Energy report cites genAI as the main reason data centers’ share of U.S. energy consumption more than doubled from 2018 to 2023—and may more than double again by 2030.
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I was sorting hotel room keys one afternoon in 1978 when I looked up to see Ella Fitzgerald approaching the front desk at the Campus Inn. “Miss Fitzgerald would like to check in,” a man accompanying her announced.
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The Trump administration’s drive to disrupt the federal government is already having an outsized effect on Ann Arbor, from social services to climate activism. (For the impact on just one nonprofit, see Doomsday Planning.) But none matches the economic destruction threatened by a February announcement from the National Institutes of Health, which provides $800 million of the U-M’s $2 billion in annual research funding. The edict would set grantees’ “indirect cost” reimbursement at 15 percent.
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