Cover of the UN report: Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use: Carbon, Water and Land Footprints (IMAGE)
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According to Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use: Carbon, Water and Land Footprints, from the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH): “One of the most consequential dimensions of AI that remains comparatively underexamined is its environmental footprint and the justice implications that follow. Its expansion involves “physical infrastructure and supply chains, including data centers, chips, electricity generation, cooling systems, water withdrawals, land occupation, critical minerals, and eventual e-waste.”
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