UN warns AI's daily environmental footprint demands urgent regulation

Study: AI's Environmental Impact Reaches New Highs in 2025 with Significant Carbon and Water Footprints

AI data centers are using growing amounts of electricity and water, research shows, although companies aren’t divulging many details.

UNU-INWEH: AI's Growing Water and Land Footprint

By 2030, the electricity powering global data centres could reach 945 terawatt-hours, according to a new report from the United Nations Univ

Google pledges to replenish more water than its AI data centers use by 2030

Google laid out its commitments to replenishing watersheds and being transparent about data center water usage as it aims to set the tone fo

The Swiss AI Action Plan and Digital Sustainability: Challenges, Opportunities, and Prospects

The physical reality of training and deploying complex artificial intelligence (AI) systems presents profound environmental challenges, nota

Why We Don’t Know AI's True Water Footprint

Environmental Impact of AI Coding Agents: Beyond Average Query Metrics

Most of the discourse about the environmental impact of LLM use focuses on a ‘median query.’ What about a Claude Code session?