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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trilateral Research’s Dr. Rowena Rodrigues and Amelia Williams examine the widening gap between corporate sustainability claims and the measurable environmental impacts of A.I. Without integrated, ...

With fast-paced growing technological advancements, the link between technology usage habits and sustainable development provides a challenging problem for our society. 62 million tons of E-waste, or ...

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 ...

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 ...

ChatGPT has quickly become a fixture in many of our daily lives — whether that’s asking the generative AI chatbot for party-planning assistance, dating advice, therapy or Studio Ghibli-inspired art.

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 ...