In practice, the list of potential environmental benefits of AI is far longer – including the ability to identify alternative ...

The Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2024 would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop standards to measure and report the full range of AI’s ...

Working in a negative environment can be a draining experience that affects not just productivity, but also the overall ...

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, ...

Microsoft researchers have published a paper in Nature that quantifies for the first time how much energy and water are consumed and greenhouse gas emissions are produced by four datacenter cooling ...

Businesses today are constantly looking for ways to improve their sustainability and reduce their carbon footprint. After all, studies show that consumers care more about the environmental impact of ...

From data centers to AI to 5G internet, how we use the internet has a much bigger effect on our Earth than we might imagine. Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all ...