Orgs demand action to mitigate AI’s environmental harm

There is a group of more than 100 companies Publish an open letter AI industry and controllers are invited to eliminate the harmful environmental impact of technology just a few days before the top industrial officer, the president, the academics and the non -profit non -profit of the non -profit. Major AI ConferenceThe

The letter, carrying the signature of prominent advocacy groups, including Amnesty International and AI NO Institute, mentions that the emission of AI systems, depending on non-reconstruction “lock-in” and the “increasing evidence” of critical resources. The letter states that the technology sector and the governments are justified in the AI ​​to deal with these negative externalities are rarely done because of further investment.

The letter states, “AI can never be a ‘climate solution’ if it goes into fossil fuels.” “We, the signatures, claim that the AI ​​systems should be adjusted with the boundaries of our planet.”

The signatures made clear claims by calling for AI infrastructure-other issues, including the data center to become fossil fuel-free. Electric grids have been strained to a crowd of infrastructure to develop and operate the AI, forced some utilities to lean Coal And Other environmentally Friendly The source of power, the letter note.

“Global Data Center Electricity Costs Doubles by 2026 can be more than a thousand Terwat – equivalent to Japan’s annual power consumption,” the letter read, ” Quotes data from the International Energy AgencyThe “In different regions of the world, this growing demand is pushing the infrastructure to its limit, our dependence on fossil fuels is prolonged and intensifies, from which contamination is associated with public health problems.”

In this letter, government and technology agencies also call for new data centers to ensure that new data centers do not reduce water and land resources and to ensure transparency on AI’s environmental impact across “entire AI lifice”.

Most data centers, which can expand a few million square feet, need a lot of water to maintain safe moisture levels for computing equipment, not just to cool the chips. By an estimateIf 1 out of 10 residents asked the AI-driven chatbot chattbip of the Openai to write an email a week, it would cost more than 435 million liters of water.

The signatures of the letter are viewed by the view that their claims are necessary to reduce the ongoing damage from the expansion of AI to “empty minimal”.

The letter states, “The most vulnerable countries and communities for rapid climate change are first affected by AI’s loss and its calculation demands and their development is less statement,” the letter states. “We must go out to see technical progress as innate or unlimited, and instead give priority to the AI ​​processes that make meaningful contributions to the society while reducing the environment and humanitarian damage.”

Unfortunately for the Undersed, the United States, where most of the major AI agencies are based, indicate that it wants to accept growth at any price.

President Donald Trump Said He will use a powerful declaration for quick approval for new power plants for AI Data centers, including coal for backup power. Trump also has Promise to track rapid environmental approval And other permissions for any organization to invest in $ 1 billion or more locally.