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Cover of the United Nations University report on the environmental cost of AI's energy consumption, carbon emissions, water and land. Credit: UNU-INWEH

UN report: Artificial intelligence consumes not only electricity, but also water, land and metals

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A new report from the United Nations University warns that the growth of AI is creating a vast environmental footprint: data centers, cooling, power generation, mineral mining, e-waste, and inequality between countries that deploy the technology and those that do not.
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