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What exactly are we paying for when we use AI?

By Atharva Pawde, Programme Lead, Centre for Accelerating India’s Growth, NFPRC Foundation

We instinctively understand why an airline ticket costs money. Behind a two-hour flight lie fuel, crew, airport charges, maintenance and insurance and an enormous physical infrastructure invisible to the passenger.

Artificial intelligence feels different. A question is typed into a small box; An answer appears instantly. Nothing seems to move and no human seems involved. The experience feels less like using industrial infrastructure than like drawing on a more unlimited digital resource.

But AI is not weightless. Between the prompt and the response, specialised processors perform vast numbers of calculations, model parameters move repeatedly through high-bandwidth memory, electricity powers the computation, and cooling systems remove the heat. What looks like an exchange of words is an industrial process.

The user may see only a subscription fee or a charge of a few fractions of a dollar. That modest...

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Cherokee Nation joins list of tribes banning data centers on tribal lands due to water, energy, noise, and cultural resource protection concerns — and all new projects require ‘early consultation’

* The Cherokee Nation has placed a moratorium on new data centers on tribal lands * Citizens say they are concerned about the impact of new projects on the local areas * Data centers projects on non-tribal land will not be granted support by the Cherokee Nation unless they are given early consultation

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OpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training

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Social Media and AI Want Your Attention at All Times. This Documentary Wants to Change This

“Do you remember the world before cellphones?” The question comes early in Your Attention Please, a documentary that premiered at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, in March. And it hit me harder than I expected. As a 27-year-old tech reporter, I realized I don’t have too many clear

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Lid on or Off When Cooking Pasta? Here’s What an Italian Chef Says

Pasta doesn’t require an advanced cooking degree to get right. A boiling pot of salted water and a strainer is really all you need, but somehow the Italian classic has been tangled up in a series of myths about how to make it better or faster. Pasta’s simplicity

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Cherokee Nation joins list of tribes banning data centers on tribal lands due to water, energy, noise, and cultural resource protection concerns &mdash; and all new projects require &lsquo;early consultation&rsquo;

OpenAI says it has made several changes to its safety practices following the Hugging Face breach and has paused two weeks of deployment-focused RL training

Social Media and AI Want Your Attention at All Times. This Documentary Wants to Change This

Lid on or Off When Cooking Pasta? Here’s What an Italian Chef Says

Cherokee Nation joins list of tribes banning data centers on tribal lands due to water, energy, noise, and cultural resource protection concerns — and all new projects require ‘early consultation’