In January, the International Energy Agency (IEA) issued its forecast for global energy use over the next two years. Included for the first time were projections for electricity consumption associated with data centers, cryptocurrency, and artificial intelligence. The IEA estimates that, added together, this usage represented almost 2 percent of global energy demand in 2022 …
HSBC has partnered with Google Cloud to accelerate climate mitigation and resilience through financing and support for companies in the Google Cloud Ready – Sustainability (GCR-Sustainability) programme. GCR-Sustainability is a validation programme for companies with solutions available on Google Cloud that help customers achieve goals including carbon emission reduction, increased sustainability in value chains, and processing of …
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres addresses the assembly during the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images) Fabrice Coffrini | Afp | Getty Images United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday called on political and business leaders to prioritize …
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., during a fireside discussion on artificial intelligence risks with Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, not pictured, in London, UK, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Tolga Akmen | Bloomberg | Getty Images That’s a large stake, especially considering that Musk sold tens of billions of dollars worth of …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A romance that united sports and music fans, a celestial wonder that drew millions of eyes skyward and a spiritual homecoming for some Native American tribes were just some of the moments that inspired us and brought joy in 2023. In a year that saw multiple wars, deadly mass shootings, …
A global rush for the next wave of generative artificial intelligence is increasing public scrutiny on Big Tech’s expanding water footprint. Shaolei Ren, a researcher at the University of California, Riverside, recently published a study investigating the resources needed to run buzzy generative AI models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Ren and his colleagues found that …
Researchers at the AI startup Hugging Face collaborated with Carnegie Mellon University and discovered that generating an image using artificial intelligence, whether it’s to create stock images or realistic ID photos, has a carbon footprint equivalent to charging a smartphone. However, researchers discern that generating text, whether it be to create a conversation with a …
INDIA – 2020/05/17: In this photo illustration a Cyclone AMPHAN live satellite image status seen … [+] displayed on a smartphone through One weather application. (Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Weather is popular and fascinating. I have been a self-proclaimed “weather geek” since my sixth grade …
Climate change isn’t going away, and it isn’t going to get any better — at least if we keep legislating as we have been. In Democracy in a Hotter Time: Climate Change and Democratic Transformation, a multidisciplinary collection of subject matter experts discuss the increasingly intertwined fates of American ecology and democracy, arguing that only …
This is how the Earth may look in 200 million years ago, when the next supercontinent will form. getty Over the past 2 billion years, Earth’s continents have collided together to form a supercontinent every 200 to 600 million years, known as the supercontinent cycle. This means that the current continents are due to come …