Gen AI, behind the scenes: concrete, metals, heat and vapor

Gen AI debates often focus on its environmental impacts, with negative effects being researched but positive impacts mostly speculative. Without proper tools for balance, discussions stagnate. To move forward, we will start by examining the reality of data centers—inside and out—then reflect on the societal implications of the infrastructure needed to support (Generative) AI.

Let's virtually (mostly) look at those huge Data Centers, look at what they look like from the outside, from the inside, from inside the servers themselves. With this view more anchored in the hardware regarding this topic, we'll then take a step back and think about what it could mean as a society. To actually use and deploy the critical infrastructures needed to provide our beloved prompts.