The Growing Environmental Footprint Of Generative AI
AI runs on power-hungry equipment that uses millions of gallons of fresh water. Policymakers are weighing the costs.
Read more...AI runs on power-hungry equipment that uses millions of gallons of fresh water. Policymakers are weighing the costs.
Read more...Automakers are warning EV sales are falling short of the level needed to meet climate change containment goals. What to do?
Read more...Biden taps the brakes on LNG expansion. A sop to environmentalists or a sign of things to come?
Read more...Net-zero is staring to look like a big zero. Not at all good news to those who would like this planet to be hospitable in 100 years.
Read more...How the EU farmers’ protests illustrate the obstacles to climate change containment policies. And Green hopium has made matters worse.
Read more...Long-standing concerns about fertilizer runoff leading to toxic nitrates in water supplies look to be getting more traction.
Read more...The solar panel business illustrate how corporations will always find the least acceptable solution to any problem, as they have with AI
Read more...More on Boeing as a symbol of industrial decline, here due to broader environmental and coming energy cost pressures.
Read more...An analysis of electric vehicles’ explains why they are much more efficient. But this take seems to omit some key variables.
Read more...AI is projected to consume lots of power. And no one seems to care much that that’s going to increase climate change damage.
Read more...A key issue for the vaunted energy transition seems not to have gotten the attention it warrants. Reader input appreciated!
Read more...Tech-utopian hero worship, here in the form of geo-engineering hopium, is one of the social scourges of our time.
Read more...Gibson Dunn is “playing both sides” of free speech, using it to defend Big Oil and silence the industry’s critics.
Read more...A new paper on dropping fertility rates urges policies to increase them, ignoring resource constraints and environment degradation.
Read more...The impact of the reduction in Panama Canal capacity illustrates choices we will have to make. Some are more pro-survival than others
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