News / AI, Data Centres, and Their Expanding Impact on the Environment
Since the beginning of the 21st century, artificial intelligence has had a profound impact on ICT's (Information and Communication Technologies) evolution and more recently on our day-to-day habits. Whether to find sources for a bachelor thesis, generate images for social media, or even assist in the interpretation of an X-Ray, AI-technology can now provide quick and reliable answers with remarkable efficiency.
We are witnessing enormous public and private investments aimed at further elevating AI-deployment globally: in February, the European Union launched the InvestAI program, aiming to mobilise €200 billion for AI-application. Saudi Arabia has also announced Project Transcendence; a $100 billion project aiming to position the country as a worldwide AI leader.
AI could strengthen solutions to global warming and support the development of mitigation and adaptation measures in response to our changing climate. For example, Netcarbon Farming uses satellite data and IA Algorithms to precisely measure carbon capture for rural and urban sectors, providing a follow-up of carbon storage projects everywhere on earth.
The Surge of AI-Specific Data Centres
However, AI also creates new challenges in our efforts to reduce CO2 emissions and energy waste caused by data centres' energy consumption. By 2028, estimates from the Law
