Meta unveils 'Hyperion', a $10B data center complex in Louisiana, set to consume energy equivalent to 4 million homes, prompting utilities to build new gas-fired plants and raising environmental concerns.
Google touts its new AI assistant Gemini as eco-friendly, claiming minimal water and energy usage per text prompt, but critics argue the tech giant omits key data and its overall carbon emissions and resource usage keep rising despite efficiency gains.
Google unveils AI Inference Impact Metrics, a methodology quantifying the energy, emissions, and water footprint of AI inference tasks like Gemini text prompts, revealing median energy use of 0.24 watt-hours and emissions of 0.03 grams of carbon dioxide per prompt.
Major tech firms pour billions into AI development, igniting a fierce arms race that exacerbates skilled labor shortages and surging emissions, undermining net zero commitments amidst the AI frenzy.
OpenAI unveils GPT-5, a groundbreaking AI model with immense capabilities like creating websites and answering PhD-level questions, but experts warn its energy demands could be up to 20 times higher than previous models.
AI model Perch empowers conservationists to safeguard endangered species through improved bioacoustic analysis, recognizing specific sounds, adapting to new environments like coral reefs, and allowing open-source monitoring of biodiversity.
Gulf's booming AI hubs face a looming water crisis, with data centers projected to consume over 426 billion liters annually by 2030, straining the region's scarce freshwater resources as traditional cooling systems rely heavily on water.
Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth AI system maps the entire planet's surface using satellite data, compressing petabytes of information into compact summaries, enabling environmental monitoring and data-driven decision-making for conservation and resource management.
Google DeepMind unveils AlphaEarth, an AI model that processes satellite data to generate detailed digital maps of the entire planet, enabling tracking of environmental changes and aiding conservation efforts by organizations like the UN.
AlphaEarth Foundations unveils a comprehensive digital twin of Earth's surface by integrating petabytes of data from satellites, radar, and climate simulations, enabling detailed mapping for ecosystem monitoring, agriculture, and more.