AI’s Green Climate Promise: Claims vs Reality

AI’s Growing Environmental Footprint. As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes integrated into everyday life, demand for the infrastructure needed to power it is rapidly growing. Processing the vast amount of data required by AI consumes volumes of electricity in specialised data centres, fuelling a data centre building frenzy that contributes to increasing greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption and pressure on natural resources. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global...