Governments should play to their existing strengths in data collection to make AI safer for their citizens, including assessing what kinds of data are too risky to allow private companies to collect.
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AI needs careful monitoring and the right policies to ensure it can benefit the fight against climate change.
Whether artificial intelligence leads to more or less energy use will depend on how we adapt to using it.
Computer data centres produce vast amounts of heat that often gets wasted - now that’s being harnessed to warm swimming pools and improve overall energy efficiency.
Could the data centres that power the internet be moved to the bottom of the ocean? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
Data centres and lithium mines have been proposed for depopulated regions of Spain.
Indonesia must reduce data center energy use and promote digital responsibility to lessen environmental impact.
While recuperating heat from data centres to ease greenhouse energy demands is better than letting it go to waste, we must not overlook the complex implications of these two newly merging industries.
Vast amounts of digital data is stored on computer servers and never used.
‘Hyperscale’ warehouses filled with computer servers use water for electricity and cooling.
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Professor of Information and Knowledge Management, Loughborough University
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