A new initiative, the “WATERWISE” project, is leveraging artificial intelligence and big data to combat Greece’s growing water...
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is hailed as a potential tool to solve the world’s most urgent environmental challenges — from predicting climate disasters to optimising energy use and managing water scarcity. Yet beneath the optimistic headlines lies a growing problem: the environmental cost of AI itself. Training large-scale AI models consumes enormous amounts of electricity and water, generates significant carbon emissions, and requires rare-earth minerals often mined under exploitative and ecologically destructive conditions. These costs are rarely felt in the tech labs or corporate boardrooms where AI is developed. Instead, they are outsourced to the Global South — where infrastructure is...
A new initiative, the “WATERWISE” project, is leveraging artificial intelligence and big data to combat Greece’s growing water...
The project aims to tackle water shortages on islands such as Santorini, especially during the high-demand summer tourist season. Credit:...
The project aims to tackle water shortages on islands such as Santorini, especially during the high-demand summer tourist season. Credit:...
Generative AI promises to help solve everything from climate change to poverty. But behind every chatbot response lies a deep environmental cost....
LOS ANGELES — For more than two decades, satellites have tracked the total amounts of water held in glaciers, ice sheets, lakes, rivers, soil and...
LOS ANGELES — For more than two decades, satellites have tracked the total amounts of water held in glaciers, ice sheets, lakes, rivers, soil and...
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17 areas are now at significant scarcity - the highest number since the current version of the National Water Scarcity Plan was introduced.
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