Irina RaicuIrina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. You might have noticed the multiplying headlines. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/15/data-center-gas-emissions-tech"AI and Satellites Fight Climate Change and Restore Rainforests”: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2024/03/13/ai-and-satellites-fight-climate-change-and-restore-rainforests/“Bill Gates Says AI’s Green Benefits Will Outweigh Its Emissions”: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2024/03/13/ai-and-satellites-fight-climate-change-and-restore-rainforests/“Elon Musk’s New AI Data Center Raises Alarms Over Pollution”: https://time.com/7021709/elon-musk-xai-grok-memphis/“U.S. tech giants are building dozes of data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting back”: https://restofworld.org/2024/data-centers-environmental-issues/“China’s Hinterland Becomes a Critical Datascape”: https://www.noemamag.com/chinas-hinterland-becomes-a-critical-datascape/

Source: The Guardian October 16, 2024 10:39 UTC