Associated Press: AI ‘brings a hidden climate cost’ – ‘Releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere

[rangerrebew]

Associated Press: AI ‘brings a hidden climate cost’ – ‘Releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere & contributes to climate change’
By Marc Morano
August 22, 2025
10:37 am


By CALEIGH WELLS, Associated Press

Excerpt: Every time someone uses AI, it uses energy that is often generated by fossil fuels. That releases greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and contributes to climate change.

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“Since we are trying to build data centers at a pace where we cannot integrate more renewable energy resources into the grid, most of the new data centers are being powered by fossil fuels,” said Noman Bashir, computing and climate impact fellow with MIT’s Climate and Sustainability Consortium.

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Quantifying AI’s footprint
How much those programs contribute to global warming depends on a lot of factors, including how warm it is outside the data center that’s processing the query, how clean the grid is and how complex the AI task is.

Information sources on AI’s contributions to climate change are incomplete and contradictory, so getting exact numbers is difficult.

But Ippolito tried anyway.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/08/22/ap-ai-brings-a-hidden-climate-cost-releases-greenhouse-gases-into-the-atmosphere-contributes-to-climate-change/

[rangerrebew]

I'm certain Russia, China, and India will give up AI to save the world.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Climate Change Nazi's, go F yourselves.  Your stopping Western human progress to the benefit of Russia, China, and India.

Yeah, quanifty the footprint of AI as well as you have quantified the footprints of solar, wind, lithium mining, palm oil plantations, corn ehtanol, and every other green energy fraud that's quantified by using  'selective math'.