Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with an impact estimated at 80 times that of CO₂. Although efforts are being made to ...

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 ...

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, ...

A new poll shows growing concerns among citizens over the potential environmental effects caused by artificial intelligence. The Associated Press-NORC Center poll, released Thursday, found about 4 in ...

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Thompson Rivers University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Thompson Rivers University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. OpenAI’s recent rollout of its new ...

AI is the future, but how is its infrastructure impacting your air, water, and utilities bills today? You asked, and Brittany delivered. Many of you wrote in asking about artificial intelligence’s ...

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...

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 ...

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 ...