Artificial intelligence has caused concern for its tremendous consumption of water and power. But scientists are also experimenting with ways that AI can help people and businesses use energy more ...

The incorporation of artificial intelligence in college curriculums raises concerns over the technology’s environmental consequences. MIT News reported that generative AI is currently experiencing a ...

And that computing power has a big environmental footprint. A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 ...

“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, wrote in an aside in a long blog post last week. The average query, Altman wrote, uses 0.34 ...

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says.

By 2040, AI data centers alone will account for 12% of North American electricity consumption, according to a report on the ...

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental ...

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 ...

No wonder Google is desperate for more power: The company’s data centers more than doubled their electricity use in just four years. The eye-popping stat comes from Google’s most recent sustainability ...