According to Reuters: "In addition to its Finnish investment, the search and cloud giant announced last month it would build new data centres in the Netherlands and Belgium."
As AI becomes ubiquitous, a big concern is going to be the energy usage or carbon footprint. That is why Google is locating it's data center in Finland, due to access to renewable energy.
It takes a lot of energy to train and run AI models. Perhaps industry cooperation can ensure that people are not simply replicating each other's work with similar AI models, and reduce the number of AI models. And open AI models can be used to develop specialized models, that don't need to be trained from scratch. All this will save money, lower energy usage and GHG emissions, while retaining consumer choice.
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