AI infrastructure has significant environmental consequences.

Evidence

Spring would also take me to a data center—the warehouse-size infrastructure powering the AI boom, even as it quietly chews through our environment. — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 436

Categorization

• QUESTION: This highlights the growing concern about environmental impact due to AI infrastructure.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Joanna Stern, I Am Not a Robot- My Year Using AI to…, 436
• XREF: connects to: Emerging technologies can obscure important social responsibilities. — Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna, The AI Con- How to Fight Big Tech’s…, 431; AI is a planetary extractive industry, not a disembodied intelligence — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 2591