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The Growing Environmental Footprint Of Generative AI

This story examines AI's carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and it's consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water in light of policy decisions.

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AI use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and for the consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water, and it indirectly boosts impacts from building and maintaining the power-hungry equipment on which AI runs. Policymakers are now weighing the costs. This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360

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