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.

While the internet can be defined (though I will not attempt to do that just yet), its environmental impact is only slightly easier to trace than water molecules. Locating local internet ...

It might seem ethereal, but everything we do on the internet has a tangible effect in the real world. Here's how to cut your ...

Every time we do a Google search, we don't necessarily think about the environmental impact it can have. A significant amount ...

It’s adding to the demand for more internet data centers ... ALI ROGIN: What are the environmental impacts of having some of these data centers in your backyard? SACHI KITAJIMA MULKEY: So ...

As the environmental impact of data centres and servers explodes, driven by economic growth and rapid advancements such as AI ...

Wendy Park, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity, described the court’s ruling as a “disastrous decision” ...

This has led to the arrival of the internet’s hyper-consumption ... While it may appear similar at first, the impact on the local environment from companies operating giant data centers is ...

In December 2023, the MIT Tech Review published an article with the headline “Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone.” Most users of image generation tools, ...

We recommend the FCC to pause all future launches of satellite internet megaconstellations ... launches until it can assess the environmental impact of placing thousands of spacecraft in orbit.

To train these models, large scale datasets across the internet are collected and ... Axelrod said there is also a positive side AI's impacts on the environment. “Something as powerful as ...