We Aren’t Being Told the Real Extent of AI Datacenter Emissions

We Aren’t Being Told the Real Extent of AI Datacenter Emissions

AI’s darkest secret.

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The already formidable environmental toll of generative AI is even worse than it seems because businesses aren’t being transparent about the emissions given off by their enormous new AI datacenters.

Take Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon and one of the largest cloud computing platforms in the world, which doesn’t provide location-based or data center-specific statistics in its emissions reports. That means it’s impossible to tell how much…

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