Tag: sostenibilidad
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Measured and reserved
Las cifras circulan ya con la seguridad de los hechos. Los centros de datos del mundo consumieron unos 415 teravatios-hora en 2024, cerca del 1,5 % de toda la electricidad del planeta, y podrían acercarse a los 945 en 2030. En Estados Unidos fueron 176 teravatios-hora en 2023, un 4,4 % del consumo nacional. Entrenar…
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Cooling the room, warming the world
On the paradox of preserving art on a warming planet, and who can afford it. Imagine the perfect room. Twenty-one degrees, fifty per cent relative humidity, without a single fluctuation. The work hangs in ideal conditions, protected from light, from dust, from time. For decades, that stability was the unquestionable ideal of the…
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Mass technology and ethical consumption
Regarding the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, video games and social media in 2025. Study objective. This paper compares, using the best evidence available in 2025, the order of magnitude of the annual environmental impact of three mass digital markets—artificial intelligence, video games and social media—and discusses whether the prevailing question…