The Hidden Cost of AI: Why Running Local Models is the Key to Sustainable Tech
The outrage about data centers is ironic. For decades, the global north has outsourced its pollution and resource drain to the global south, to poorer countries. Manufacturing waste, overfishing, and slave labor in Southeast Asia. Mineral extract leaving wastelands and warlords all over Africa. Deforestation and outright murder of indigenous peoples in South America to…
