📣 Making AI Less “Thirsty”: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models
📣 Making AI Less “Thirsty”: Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models Authors: Pengfei Li, Jianyi Yang, Mohammad A. Islam, Shaolei Ren Abstract: The growing carbon footprint of artificial intelligence (AI) has been undergoing public scrutiny. Nonetheless, the equally important water (withdrawal and consumption) footprint of AI has largely remained under the […]
Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI
Google falling short of important climate target, cites electricity needs of AI This article is written by Alexa St. John for Associate Press. Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” meaning it would release no more climate-changing gases into the air than it removes, by 2030. […]
Are we the last generation – or the first sustainable one?
Are we the last generation – or the first sustainable one? The word “sustainability” gets thrown around a lot these days. But what does it actually mean for humanity to be sustainable? Environmental data scientist Hannah Ritchie digs into the numbers behind human progress across centuries, unpacking why the conventional understanding of sustainability is misleading […]