While artificial intelligence (AI) may solve certain sustainability issues in the future, the technology’s environmental footprint is already a topic of much discussion today. To help society bridge ...

Training and using artificial intelligence consumes energy and produces fossil fuel emissions and pollutants. AI has driven significant increases in greenhouse gas emissions from major technology ...

It might seem like magic. Type a request into ChatGPT, click a button and — presto! — here’s a five-paragraph analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and, as an added bonus, it’s written in iambic pentameter ...

Thanks in large part to the training and running of artificial-intelligence models, the amount of power California data centers are using is surging — as are related environmental and health effects, ...

We investigate how the tech industry is thinking about its environmental footprint as it invests in energy-consuming new AI models. Perhaps you have played around with artificial intelligence or have ...

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. Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all ...

As global leaders, international organizations, scientists, business representatives and climate activists convene in Belém for COP30, the IAEA is showcasing how nuclear science and technology are ...

Environmental questions plague deep-sea mining ambitions, but US bodies say the sector needs an adaptive management approach.