Using AI has an environmental impact — here are 4 ways you can minimize it

Let’s save AI use for the solutions, not the gimmicks

If data centres are on track to consume a significant amount of the world’s electricity, land and freshwater – do we need to rethink how we're using AI?

Using AI has an environmental impact — here are 4 ways you can minimize it

Inside the world’s newest data centers, energy-guzzling computations proceed round the clock as AI chatbots and other generative AI tools tackle tasks from the frivolous to the weighty: assembling imagery for social media, proffering relationship advice, analyzing medical images to diagnose cancer, creating code for developers or detecting financial scams for banks.Just as the popularity of AI tools has skyrocketed in recent years, so have the a…