The AI boom has become a political flashpoint, especially when it comes to concerns about the impacts of the data centers ...

Generation Z is increasingly concerned about the environmental consequences of digital technology, according to a survey.

Diagnosing the environmental sustainability of the internet might seem, at first, like trying to figure out where the molecules of water in your morning cup of coffee originated. Water is constantly ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) may solve certain sustainability issues in the future, the technology’s environmental footprint is already a topic of much discussion today. To help society bridge ...

Since the release of ChatGPT in late 2022, the rise of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has been at the forefront of the public’s attention. It’s exploded within the tech scene, with all of the major ...

From job displacement and plagiarism to questions about accuracy and privacy risks, generative artificial intelligence — or genAI — is fraught the kinds of issues you’d expect from such disruptive ...

Opacity in A.I. infrastructure and narrow measurement tools are widening the gap between corporate climate commitments and environmental reality. Courtesy Microsoft As A.I. adoption accelerates, ...

A model quantifies the environmental footprint of wearable health-care electronics and identifies strategies to reduce their environmental toll. Although such environmental issues have been studied ...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) exert profound environmental pressures across their life cycle. The extraction of minerals for device manufacture, the energy demands of data centres ...

Training and using artificial intelligence consumes energy and produces fossil fuel emissions and pollutants. AI has driven significant increases in greenhouse gas emissions from major technology ...

Amid growing concerns about the environmental impact of artificial intelligence, Google says it has calculated the energy required for its Gemini AI service: Sending a single text prompt consumes as ...