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, ...

Taiwan’s Ministry of Environment (MoE) said it will revise its EIA standards for PV projects, following public scrutiny of floating solar development and online claims that countries such as Singapore ...

The IAEA will host the concluding Workshop on Methods for Radiological and Environmental Impact Assessment (MEREIA), the latest in a series of international initiatives—following MODARIA and ...

The demand for data centers is growing faster than our ability to mitigate their skyrocketing economic and environmental costs Amber X. Chen - AAAS Mass Media Fellow As the demand for A.I. increases, ...

Federal permitting reforms are driving unprecedented results under President Trump. Today, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released its updated National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) ...

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From job displacement and plagiarism to questions about accuracy and privacy risks, generative artificial intelligence — or genAI — is fraught the kinds of issues you’d expect from such disruptive ...

To test the value of AI, we ran an experiment alongside our annual impact performance assessment run between May and June of this year. As part of this assessment, we use a rating scale (1-4, with ...

Despite concerns over the environmental impacts of AI models, it’s surprisingly hard to find precise, reliable data on the CO 2 emissions and water use for many major large language models. French ...

(São Paulo) - Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should veto a bill that dismantles environmental licensing and poses serious threats to environment-related human rights across the country, ...

The Supreme Court’s decision in May to narrow the scope of environmental reviews under the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act is a dangerous concession to short-term development interests at the ...

AI has become nearly ubiquitous in today's world, but many users don't know the environmental impact of chatting with large language models like DeepSeek and ChatGPT. A study from the Munich ...