How AI’s power, water and carbon footprints have a disproportionate effect on local communities, and what can be done about ...

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 ...

Tech companies and governments could be doing more to reduce the environmental impact of AI data centers. That’s according to ...

Rising data-center energy usage increases water usage. The chips used inside their computers generate substantial amounts of heat; the facilities typically use cooling systems that rely on evaporating ...

From data centers to AI to 5G internet, how we use the internet has a much bigger effect on our Earth than we might imagine. Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all ...

The EPA has reportedly drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. Now, with the rise of artificial ...

Microsoft researchers have published a paper in Nature that quantifies for the first time how much energy and water are consumed and greenhouse gas emissions are produced by four datacenter cooling ...

AI can significantly boost business efficiency and client experience, but its environmental impact, especially in energy and water use, is substantial. The use of AI has a significant impact on the ...

The EPA has reportedly drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, according to documents obtained by The New York Times. Now, with the rise of artificial ...