So, to the question at hand: What is the environmental impact of the internet? I’m sorry to have to give you the ever-frustrating answer: “It depends.” Because it does, it really does.

Researchers at the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium are studying the direct and indirect impacts of using generative ...

There’s a trade-off between the accuracy and sustainability of different large language models, according to German ...

In December 2023, the MIT Tech Review published an article with the headline “Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone.” Most users of image generation tools, ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court may be about to sharply limit the reach of so-called environmental impact statements, which gauge potential harm of proposed developments and often cause projects ...

How conflict impacts our environment Today, the world faces record levels of conflict and violence with a significant impact on people. In 2023 alone, over 170 armed conflicts were recorded.

A U.S. nonprofit has called on the Federal Communications Commission to pause satellite megaconstellation launches until their environmental impact can be assessed.

Concerns about cryptocurrency mining’s impact on the environment have been documented several times over, but now we know just how detrimental it really is. A study out of New Mexico has found ...

There are some things that we know, without a doubt, have a negative impact on the environment — things like gas-guzzling vehicles, coal plants, single-use plastics, and cow farts. But there are ...

This has led to the arrival of the internet’s hyper-consumption era, a period defined by the spread of a new kind of computing that demands excessive amounts of electricity and water to build as ...

Axelrod pointed out that the large scale of the environment and climate change makes it difficult to put an exact numerical figure on AI’s environmental impact. Due to the vast number of factors ...