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AI's Green Trade-Off
Environmental organizations use artificial intelligence to analyze climate data, monitor wildfires, and protect animals. In Kenya, aerial-image analysis sped up animal counts and revealed that human observers had been missing large numbers of animals. In Tanzania, digitizing chimpanzee observations cut a task that would have taken 13 to 15 years down to about two years. But the expansion of data centers is increasing resource consumption. The International Energy Agency projects that by 2030, they will use 945 terawatt-hours of electricity a year and 1.2 trillion liters of water, while producing more than 300 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. Institutions are trying to reduce the environmental cost by limiting resource-intensive applications and processing data on devices. The article calls for AI to be operated transparently and with lower energy and water consumption.
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