AI’s Environmental Impact: Performance Over Sustainability in Corporate Decision-Making

27% of companies check the energy consumption of an AI model before making a selection. For more than half of the companies, performance is more important than measuring environmental impacts when it comes to artificial intelligence. This is according to a study by the IT consulting firm Capgemini. At the same time, 48% of executives … Read more

Assessing and Reducing the Environmental Impact of AI Technology

AI models require data centers to process prompts accurately, but these centers consume a lot of energy. AI tools like ChatGPT are becoming more reliable, yet they demand increasing computational power. The exact emissions from AI bots are hard to determine because providers don’t release specific data on the environmental impact of their outputs. In … Read more

The Energy and Emission Impact of AI Data Centers in the U.S.

The current AI boom is consuming vast amounts of energy, particularly in the United States. A report from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health examined 2,132 data centers in the U.S., which amounts to 78% of all such facilities in the country. These centers, filled with rows of servers, are used to train … Read more