r/MachineLearning - [D] AutoML/Neural Architecture Search has a giant CO2 footprint

Energy does mean a thing. You are never creating energy, you are only transforming it. Meaning you are still taking energy from somewhere. Having enough energy for everyone to light their house is actually a rising problem since with less atom energy it gets harder to manage and distribute. While it gets hard to distribute that energy we are wasting tons of energy on ML.