It’s hard to imagine an environmental impact from our online activities. After all, the virtual world is not a physical place. But computing uses much more electricity than just the battery in your laptop. Data centers use water to keep machines cool while they burn through all that electricity to process our data. And few online activities are as thirsty […]
Have you noticed the increasing impact of artificial intelligence (AI) applications in our society? The November 2022 launch of ChatGPT, an AI chatbot developed by the Elon Musk- and Microsoft-backed entity OpenAI, skyrocketed this and similar tools into public consciousness. Many people and companies are now finding intersections between generative AI and sustainability. Could AI tools, including ChatGPT, be applied […]