While governments debate climate targets and companies pledge a "green" transition, one of the most ambitious technological breakthroughs of the 21st century—artificial intelligence—poses a new environmental challenge. Demand for computing power is growing rapidly, along with the energy consumption required to run data centers. But AI is not only a source of emissions—it's also a potential tool for reducing them. The question is whether governments and corporations can harness this power for the planet’s benefit—or end up accelerating its overheating.
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If the AI is really smart it will do some simple cost calculations and figure that it’s cheaper to locate itself and powerful itself in the parts of the world what have the most abundance sunshine. Using fossil fuels to power all this AI will be expensive.