{"id":208104,"date":"2026-05-01T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/italys-second-richest-man-makes-a-disturbing-comment-about-artificial-intelligence-and-companies-that-almost-without-saying-so-are-training-their-own-replacements\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:50:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:50:30","slug":"italys-second-richest-man-makes-a-disturbing-comment-about-artificial-intelligence-and-companies-that-almost-without-saying-so-are-training-their-own-replacements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/italys-second-richest-man-makes-a-disturbing-comment-about-artificial-intelligence-and-companies-that-almost-without-saying-so-are-training-their-own-replacements\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s second-richest man makes a disturbing comment about artificial intelligence and companies that, almost without saying so, are training their own replacements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/italys-second-richest-man-makes-a-disturbing-comment-about-artificial-intelligence-and-companies-that-almost-without-saying-so-are-training-their-own-replacements\/31524\/\">Italy\u2019s second-richest man makes a disturbing comment about artificial intelligence and companies that, almost without saying so, are training their own replacements<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/italys-second-richest-man-makes-a-disturbing-comment-about-artificial-intelligence-and-companies-that-almost-without-saying-so-are-training-their-own-replacements\/31524\/\">https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/italys-second-richest-man-makes-a-disturbing-comment-about-artificial-intelligence-and-companies-that-almost-without-saying-so-are-training-their-own-replacements\/31524\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-01 19:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.ecoticias.com\">www.ecoticias.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Andrea Pignataro argues that businesses&#8217; fear of AI replacing enterprise software is overstated, as AI also serves critical institutional functions like compliance and auditing.<\/li>\n<li>He warns of the &#8220;tragedy of the commons&#8221; where collective AI adoption could undermine individual companies by training platforms that may eventually surpass them.<\/li>\n<li>Data centers&#8217; electricity demand is projected to nearly double globally by 2030, accounting for about 3% of global electricity use, raising energy efficiency concerns.<\/li>\n<li>In the U.S., data center power consumption could increase to nearly 12% of total U.S. power use by 2028, stressing local grids and environments.<\/li>\n<li>Data centers also significantly increase water usage, with direct and indirect water consumption rising, and highlighting cooling&#8217;s local ecological impact.<\/li>\n<li>Emissions from data centers are rising, with U.S. data centers alone emitting about 67 million short tons of CO2 in 2023, contributing to global CO2 levels that may double by 2035.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced chip manufacturing faces supply bottlenecks, and increased hardware usage raises significant e-waste concerns, with only a fraction of the generated e-waste being recycled.<\/li>\n<li>Though AI can support the clean energy transition, transparency and flexibility in data center operations are crucial to minimizing environmental harm.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy\u2019s second-richest man makes a disturbing comment about artificial intelligence and companies that, almost without&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ai-data-centers-energy-demand-electricity-impact-pignataro.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-208104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208106,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208104\/revisions\/208106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}