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The AI boom has become a political flashpoint, especially when it comes to concerns about the impacts of the data centers needed to train and operate it.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon pollution they create, along with the water and land ...

A new report says data centers can have large effects on water, land and the climate, even if they’re powered by clean energy. The environmental impacts of artificial intelligence go far beyond energy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...

Asha LaManque ’27 is a rising senior majoring in environmental science with double minors in biology and computer science, and was a 2025-26 Hackworth Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied ...

Company-wide gains blocked by tool fragmentation and governance gaps; while workers continue to feel the strain of ...

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Update, June 22, 4:15 p.m. ET: In a statement to Fast Company, REI blamed its AI-generated ad on being auto-enrolled by Meta into an AI personalization tool. “Meta auto-enrolled us in an AI ...

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, ...