Let's imagine that rather than instead of typing on a keyboard in the classroom, pulling up answers effortlessly from some unseen, students had to do something else.
There's also the environmental cost to manufacture all of those servers and mine the minerals for them. And then there's the future technological lock-in costs of "well we've made all these servers, we have to use them for something." Even if the AI bubble bursts, that physical infrastructure will still be there and will likely be used, continuing the energy consumption.
There's also the environmental cost to manufacture all of those servers and mine the minerals for them. And then there's the future technological lock-in costs of "well we've made all these servers, we have to use them for something." Even if the AI bubble bursts, that physical infrastructure will still be there and will likely be used, continuing the energy consumption.