AI firms usually have huge data centres, which power the technology. And with that great usage, comes great amounts of energy zapped up by AI companies.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sustainability has been climbing up the boardroom agenda for the last decade. With environmental scrutiny impacting businesses at every level, it is no surprise that in recent months, attention has ...

College teaching has always required the consumption of natural resources, but with the rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools, it is poised to become much more resource-intensive.