Our New Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure: Becoming Locked into an Unsustainable Future

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This paper is in a gray area between review, opinion, or evaluation of aspects and consequences of the implementation of artificial intelligence in almost all world fields today.
I want to recommend adding a paragraph where the paper's contributions to the state of the art of artificial intelligence and its impact on the environment are listed and explained.

 I recommend a deep analysis of each of the aspects analyzed, such as ethics, sustainability, infrastructure, hardware production, data management, among others. Furthermore, a qualitative and quantitative study about the environmental cost of AI implementation in different areas should be added. This study should be accompanied by solid and well-supported data, in addition to graphs that support the analysis of information.

A deeper analysis of all aspects of the application of AI and the possible environmental consequences should be included.

It should include a section indicating the new paradigms and the areas of research and development that should be addressed to face or mitigate the impact of AI and its application in the environment.

If the paper is being taken as a review paper, it is necessary to use many more references to support the ideas and postulated theories.

Author Response

Please see the attachment

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Dear Authors,

At the outset I thank you for preparing such a wonderful article, I had given my opinion for the betterment of the article, feel free to improve and submit for a decision.

1. Is the title perfectly matching the content, in particular the word  Deja Vu of climate, please check. I am not getting that full feel, you can try an alternate word but its your choice.
2. Line 10-11: Where in article authors conveyed this concept? It is really not clear to me.
3. Line 13-17 is too heavy to understand, write in fragments please
4. Line 18: Interdependencies from which it will be hard to escape, I think when technology develops, solutions to problems it may create also will develop. Ex : Textile industry and its wastewater and solutions for treating it. Please think on this lines too.
5. Line 34 onwards the usage of word "Infrastructure" What exactly authors think on this word can be written somewhere.
6. Line 29-31 not clear please rewrite
7. Line 44-47: What authors really think with the word AI should be clear to the reader. it involves millions of concepts. Is it an automated car? Is it a medicine technology? Is it a service? This lines weightage depends on it.
8. Line 36: Climate change is a man made problem is not yet proved fully, there are alternate statements exists.
9. Line 50: "between AI and infrastructure" which infrastructure?
10. Line 54: Human labor? Yes but is it also climate change inducing?
11. Line 55: AI itself is becoming infrastructure : Too much repetition of this concept and sentence is dragging, please optimise.
12. Line 55-58: Is it purely an AI based concept? Is FB operating via AI only? 
13. Line 63-68 is also repeating concept and sentences, please optimise.
14. Line 70-74 need citations or be clear from where author got this information.
15. Line 96-97: How it is possible?
16. Line 86-88 is the main concept of this article, please give more emphasize to this concept.
17. Line 144 -150: Majority is non technical, please note that many industries are there which consumes 1000 times more water than a datacenter which authors mention, hence I don't feel this is substantiated, please try to explain clearly.
18. Line 147: Fiber optic cable network : Is this used to pass electricity or data? IS current passing through fiber optic network? Where?
19. Line 148-149: Is it true in all cases?
20. Section 3 is again having lot of repeated statement and it makes really boring to a new reader, high level of optimisation is mandatory.
21. Please use some sub headings in section 3.
22. Line 187 ended improperly, what authors convey through this paragraph?
23. Line 214: To emphasize this sentence authors had used multiple paragraphs which are not really providing a good transition, this is my opinion. 
24. In section 4, sub section 3.1 comes is it a copy paste error or typo?
25. Section 4 is poorly formed section and majority of the content is off topic, please check, give this paper to a new reader and ask to read, they will tell the same.
26. 4.2 Data collection: Spelling mistake
27. Line 302-304: But the comparison is not proper, we cannot compare the usage of that model to the usage of an automobile. In sustainability usage and purpose also need to be considered.
28. Section 4.3 to 4.4 poor transition, no real connection exists.
29. Section 4.4 is written with an idea that all computer hardware is used for AI only, its really wrong.
30. Section 4 is really lagging in connection between sub sections, please add connecting sentences please.

Hope the authors will take the concepts mentioned in review and rewrite the paper and submit for further evaluation

Good luck

Author Response

Please see the attachment

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

Sirs

The article is recommend for processing now

 

Author Response

Dear Reviewer,

We are happy that our response satisfied your comments and suggestions. Thanks!