A.I.’s Environmental Impact Is Testing Corporate Climate Commitments

A.I.’s Environmental Impact Is Testing Corporate Climate Commitments

As A.I. adoption accelerates, companies are making sustainability claims they cannot reliably substantiate, using metrics that fail to adequately capture the true environmental costs of A.I. systems. This creates a new risk: even well-intentioned companies committed to sustainability may unintentionally greenwash their activities, undermining public trust, investor confidence and corporate credibility. A.I.’s environmental impacts are significan…