Tag: sustainability

Does Sustainable AI have a future? Here’s what the experts think…

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With big AI getting ever-bigger - and therefore more impactful - in the context of historically huge IPOs (OpenAI, Anthropic and xAI/SpaceX), and close-to-a-trillion dollars being sunk into AI data centres, is anyone actually listening to those warning about the ever-bigger associated planetary harms? What is the work that needs to be done, and the … Continue reading Does Sustainable AI have a future? Here’s what the experts think… →

Sustainability soundbites from the India AI Impact Summit

Well, this should be a quick post! Why? Because despite having the word "Impact" in its title, the India AI Impact Summit only featured a handful of sessions on the elephant in the room - AI's considerable environmental impacts - despite "Planet" being one of its three main pillars, or sutras. As usual, we couldn’t … Continue reading Sustainability soundbites from the India AI Impact Summit →

Can we really assess the environmental impacts of AI?

As highlighted in our previous article, there is every reason to believe that the environmental impact of generative AI is set to increase significantly: sevenfold by 2030, according to the latest study by the GreenIT Association. The need for frugal AI therefore seems obvious. But how can we assess these impacts on a daily basis, … Continue reading Can we really assess the environmental impacts of AI? →

Why 2026 must be the year of Responsible AI

Article originally published in La Machine, the AI newsletter of the French Tech Journal We know. It’s been quite the year for AI. Three years even, if you take ChatGPT’s release as the starting gun for all of this madness. Besides countless AI startups’ fundraisers and gazillions being sunk into data centres, this was the … Continue reading Why 2026 must be the year of Responsible AI →

Understanding AI’s true – and ever-increasing – impacts

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87%. That’s how much the emissions of NVIDIA (worth 5 trillion dollars) increased in 2024, as an article from TruthDig is one of the only sources in the world to point out. This means it became the world’s most valuable company by answering soaring demand for AI
 whilst doubling its carbon footprint. Not to mention … Continue reading Understanding AI’s true – and ever-increasing – impacts →

AI’s Impacts, how to limit them, and why (updated)

"We can't quantify AI's impact, we don't have enough precise data." Oh really? It's largely in reaction to assertions like this that I first set about compiling the above stats, late 2024. Because, whilst a lot of figures floating around are questionable - most famously the assertion that 1 request to ChatGPT uses as much … Continue reading AI’s Impacts, how to limit them, and why (updated) →