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Your AI Use Could Have a Hidden Environmental Cost

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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Sign up for CNN’s Life, But Greener newsletter. Our limited newsletter series guides you on how to minimize your personal role in the climate crisis — and reduce your eco-anxiety. Whether it’s answering work emails or drafting wedding vows, generative artificial intelligence tools have become a trusty copilot in many people’s lives. But a growing body of research shows that for every problem AI solves, hidden env…

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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN Whether answering work emails or writing wedding vows, generative artificial intelligence tools have become a reliable assistant in many people's lives. But a growing body of research shows that for every problem AI solves, hidden environmental costs accrue. Each word in an instruction directed to the AI is broken down into groups of numbers called "ID tokens" and sent to massive data centers—some larger than football fi…

In the air, the oceans or even at the end of our forks... environmental pollution strikes everywhere and without discrimination. To stem it, public policies are at risk. On the occasion of the launch of the second issue of the series-documentary "Invisible risks and injuries: detecting and protecting them", carried out by Aema Group, we discussed the topic with Muriel Mercier-Bonin, INRAE research director, Luisa Florez, Director of Responsible …

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Global Defense Insight broke the news in on Sunday, June 22, 2025.
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