AI's #environmental #impact is no joke.
"By 2030, #AI infrastructure could generate up to 2.5 million metric tons of e-waste each year, roughly equivalent to discarding 250 Eiffel Towers annually" (page 13).
Roughly 50 pages on this very important matter by a team of reasearchers at the United Nations University:
👇
https://unu.edu/inweh/collection/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-Use-Carbon-water-and-land-footprints
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