OpenAI evolved into a powerful, controversial AI empire shaping AGI development, scientific discovery, environmental impact, and global power dynamics.
IT Sustainability Think Tank: How IT directors can spot false green claims from Big Tech suppliers | Computer Weekly
IT leaders must verify granular, workload-level environmental impacts of AI-powered services to avoid greenwashing and ensure true sustainability benefits.
Video: Opinion | A.I.'s Environmental Impact Will Threaten Its Own Supply Chain
A.I.'s growth consumes vast energy, water and rare minerals, scarring landscapes and creating supply-chain vulnerabilities that threaten its own infrastructure.
Google says a typical AI text prompt only uses 5 drops of water - experts say that's misleading
Gemini prompts use about 0.26 mL water and 0.24 Wh electricity per prompt, but experts say Google omitted indirect water use, making claims misleading.
Mistral's new "environmental audit" shows how much AI is hurting the planet
The environmental audit by Mistral reveals that the majority of CO2 emissions and water consumption arise during model training and inference, not from construction or end-user equipment.