AI’s water and electricity use soars in 2025 AI created as much carbon pollution this year as New York City and guzzled up as much H20 as people consume globally in water bottles, according to new estimates. The study paints what’s likely a pretty conservative picture of AI’s environmental impact since it’s based on the relatively limited amount of data that’s currently available to the public. A lack of transparency from tech companies makes it harder to see the potential environmental toll of AI becoming a part of everyday tasks, argues the author of the study who’s been tracking the electricity consumption of data centers used for AI and crypto mining over the years.
How does AI impact skill formation? "Anthropic's latest paper seems to be proof that AI makes people slower and dumber."
Ugh Yeah the frontier lab ad wars have finally begun; was wondering when this all would start. This has clearly got under Sam's skin, and will generate the exact PR Anthropic was looking for. Anthropic has been much more modest in their future capex spend projections, and knowing their prime market is the enterprise space, which guarantees a steady and growing revenue stream, they can afford to not have to rely on ads to fund their growth. Win win for them.
Also, the new Codex probably is better at pure coding, but its core market is hardcore engineers, whereas Claude Code's interface allows it to be much more approachable. And Anthropic is about to release a brand new model (Sonnet 5) in the next week it seems, which apparently shows even better coding skills than Opus 4.5.