Thirsty Data: The Hidden Water and Energy Costs of Texas’ Data Center Boom https://harcresearch.org/news/thirsty-data-the-hidden-water-and-energy-costs-of-texas-data-center-boom/ #HARC #HoustonAdvancedResearchCenter #WaterUse #WaterUsage #WaterConsumption #DataCenters #AI #generativeAI #genAI #TechIndustry #Tech #EnvironmentalHarms #EnergyUse #EnergyConsumption
#EnergyUse
Cornell University researchers estimate that by 2030, global AI infrastructure could use the annual water supply for 10 million people and emit as much CO₂ as 10 million cars.
Every AI query has a physical footprint — in electricity, cooling, and emissions.
#AI #Environment #Sustainability #ClimateImpact #EnergyUse #TechEthics
How the brain's activity, energy use and blood flow change as people fall asleep
#HackerNews #brainactivity #energyuse #bloodflow #sleepresearch #neuroscience
The Register: We’re all going to be paying AI’s Godzilla-sized power bills. “I see a race coming between the bursting of the AI bubble, the cracking of our already overburdened electrical grid, and all of us shivering in the winter and baking in the summertime, as AI-driven costs and brownouts make us miserable in our homes.”
OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore
#Environment #Tech #OpenAI #Sora2 #AI #AIVideo #Sustainability #ClimateImpact #AIEthics #DataCenters #EnergyUse #EnvironmentalImpact #GreenTech #Energy #Transparency
https://the-14.com/openais-newly-launched-sora-2-makes-ais-environmental-impact-impossible-to-ignore/
The impact of rising temperatures on wastewater treatment plants’ energy use and carbon emissions in China: A climate feedback perspective. #climatechange #wastewater #China #energyuse https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479725034140
The impact of rising temperatures on wastewater treatment plants’ energy use and carbon emissions in China: A climate feedback perspective. #climatechange #wastewater #China #energyuse https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479725034140
Regulating AI use could stop its runaway energy expansion
#Environment #AI #DataCentres #ArtificialIntelligence #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability #GreenTech #EnergyUse #CarbonEmissions #TechPolicy #ClimateAction #AIRegulation
https://the-14.com/regulating-ai-use-could-stop-its-runaway-energy-expansion/
Nic Chan: Exploring grid-aware websites. “The Green Web Foundation team have thoroughly explained what a grid-aware website is in this detailed case study of the Branch Magazine redesign, but if I had to put it in my own words, a grid-aware website responds to the cleanliness or dirtiness of a user’s electricity grid. In simpler terms, whether it is currently using more renewable energy […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/26/nic-chan-exploring-grid-aware-websites/
The economic pros and cons of building more and more data centres in the UK
#AI #UK #DataCenters #DigitalEconomy #UKTech #AIInfrastructure #Sustainability #EnergyUse #TechGrowth #UKEconomy #ClimateImpact #CyberResilience #Innovation
https://the-14.com/the-economic-pros-and-cons-of-building-more-and-more-data-centres-in-the-uk/
#FYI #EnergyUse #GlobalHeating #ExtremeHeatwaves #ExtremeWeather #HealthEffects
Interview with Danny Harvey, professor in the Department of Geography, University of Toronto, on the science behind extreme weather events intensifying
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmLXWaatk-U
#climate #ClimateScience #climatechange #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #climatecatastrophe #globalWarming #EcosystemCollapse #systemcollapse #ecocide #fossilfuels #Co2 #Co2Emissions #GreenhouseGases #KeepitInTheGround
Google is fully committed to burning the planet for AI, with a little green washing wrapping around it called "efficiency". https://mastodon.nz/@sy/114781343638667757
AI Video’s Hidden Cost? The Microwave Hour.
#TechAndEnergy #AIvsClimate #DigitalEthics #TheInternetIsCrack #EnergyUse
The AI boom is so big, Google’s going nuclear. Literally.
673 #ClimateSolutions #EnergyUse #Octopus
Use the electric power when its cheap and green.
Don't make [let] them burn things so you can do what you want when you want.
Adapt your USE to the availability of CHEAPnGREEN. Don't throw it away.
"The biggest mistake in energy..."
by OctopusEnergy
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hJKKbjSGzdA
Quote by OE:
"2023, Sep 25
Greg Jackson (CEO of Octopus Energy) explains the biggest mistake that the energy industry has made."
#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside
#ClimateBreakDown #StopRapingNature
🤖 Rage against the AI machine
by Chris Ferdinandi @cferdinandi.bsky.social @cferdinandi
From climate change to landfill, AI promises to solve Earth’s big environmental problems – but there’s a hitch #environment #ClimateChange #energy #energyuse #ArtificialIntelligence https://theconversation.com/from-climate-change-to-landfill-ai-promises-to-solve-earths-big-environmental-problems-but-theres-a-hitch-235011?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
AI is supposed to make us more efficient – but it could mean we waste more energy #artificalintelligence #EnergyEfficiency #ClimateChange #energyuse https://theconversation.com/ai-is-supposed-to-make-us-more-efficient-but-it-could-mean-we-waste-more-energy-220990?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton
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