{"id":834,"date":"2025-04-21T19:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/?p=4302754"},"modified":"2025-04-21T19:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T19:14:56","slug":"spotlight-on-ai-this-earth-day-ai-is-fundamentally-incompatible-with-environmental-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tecnoartesanos.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/spotlight-on-ai-this-earth-day-ai-is-fundamentally-incompatible-with-environmental-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on AI This Earth Day: \u2018AI Is Fundamentally Incompatible With Environmental Sustainability\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4302756\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4302756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4302756\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1.jpg\" alt=\"A sunny view of flower fields.\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-270x180.jpg 270w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-740x493.jpg 740w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-1110x740.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/assets.techrepublic.com\/uploads\/2025\/04\/sunny-meadow-2025-01-09-04-07-54-utc-1-810x540.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1400px) 100vw, 1400px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4302756\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Galyna_Andrushko\/Envato Elements<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Generative AI is energy-intensive, and the ways in which its environmental impact can be calculated are complex. Consider the downstream effect of generative AI on the environment when examining your company\u2019s own sustainability goals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What side effects might not be immediately visible but could have a major impact?<\/li>\n<li>When does most of the energy consumption occur: during training or everyday use?<\/li>\n<li>Do \u201cmore efficient\u201d AI models actually address any sustainability concerns?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_impact_of_generative_AI_on_electricity_generation_water_and_air_quality\"><\/span>The impact of generative AI on electricity generation, water, and air quality<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3>AI\u2019s impact on air pollution<\/h3>\n<p>In December 2024, the University of California, Riverside, and California Institute of Technology calculated that training <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/news-meta-ftc-monopoly-trial\/\">Meta<\/a>\u2019s Llama-3.1 produced the same amount of air pollution as more than 10,000 round trips by car between Los Angeles and New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The increased air pollution from backup generators at data centers running AI caused regional public health costs of approximately $190 million to $260 million a year, the UC Riverside and Caltech researchers found.<\/p>\n<h3>AI\u2019s impact on electricity use<\/h3>\n<p>A 2024 report from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Energy Agency<\/a> said one ChatGPT prompt used 10 terawatt-hours more electricity per year than the total used annually for Google searches.<\/p>\n<h3>AI\u2019s impact on water use<\/h3>\n<p>Sapping more electricity could fray already struggling utilities, leading to brownouts or blackouts. Drawing water from already drought-prone areas, such as the rapidly developing Phoenix, Arizona or the deserts of California, could cause habitat loss and wildfires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/generative-ai-data-center-water-use\/\">Sending One Email With ChatGPT is the Equivalent of Consuming One Bottle of Water<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Do_training_or_everyday_use_of_AI_consume_more_resources\"><\/span>Do training or everyday use of AI consume more resources?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cTraining is a time-consuming and energy-intensive process,\u201d the IEA wrote in its <a href=\"https:\/\/iea.blob.core.windows.net\/assets\/b8a83930-5c77-4da7-b795-270ab6a6c272\/EnergyandAI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Energy and AI World Energy Outlook Special Report<\/a>. One GPU of the type suitable for AI training draws about as much electricity as a toaster at its maximum rated power consumption. The agency calculated it took 42.4 gigawatt hours to train OpenAI\u2019s GPT-4, the equivalent of the daily household electricity use of 28,500 households in an advanced economy.<\/p>\n<p>What about everyday use? Query size, model size, the degree of inference time-scaling, and more factors into how much electricity an AI model uses during the inference stage of use, to parse the prompt. These factors, and a lack of data regarding the size and implementation of consumer AI models mean the environmental impact is very difficult to measure. However, generative AI undeniably draws more power than conventional computing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe inference phase (also the operational phase) was already responsible for the majority (60%) of AI energy costs at Google even before mass adoption of generative AI applications happened (2019-2021),\u201d wrote Alex de Vries, founder of the research blog Digiconomist and the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, in an email to TechRepublic. \u201cEven though we don\u2019t have exact numbers, mass adoption of AI applications will have increased the weight of the inference (\/operational) phase even further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, AI models continue to expand. \u201cIncreasing the model size (parameters) will result in better performance, but increases the energy use of both training and inference,\u201d said de Vries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD: This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/resource-library\/glossary\/quick-glossary-greentech\/\">Greentech Quick Glossary<\/a> from TechRepublic Premium<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"DeepSeek_claimed_to_be_more_energy_efficient_but_its_complicated\"><\/span>DeepSeek claimed to be more energy efficient, but it\u2019s complicated<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>DeepSeek\u2019s AI models have been lauded for achieving as much as their major competitors without consuming as much energy and at a lower price tag; however, the reality is more complicated.<\/p>\n<p>DeepSeek\u2019s mixture-of-experts approach reduces costs by processing relationships between concepts in batches. It doesn\u2019t require as much computational power or consume as much energy during training. The <a href=\"https:\/\/iea.blob.core.windows.net\/assets\/b8a83930-5c77-4da7-b795-270ab6a6c272\/EnergyandAI.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IEA found<\/a> that the everyday use of the inference time scaling method used by DeepSeek-R1 consumes a significant amount of electricity. Generally, large inference models consume the most electricity. The training is less demanding, but the usage is more demanding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/01\/31\/1110776\/deepseek-might-not-be-such-good-news-for-energy-after-all\/\">according to MIT Technology Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI\u2019s o1 model are substantially more energy intensive than other large language models,\u201d wrote IEA in the 2025 Energy and AI report.<\/p>\n<p>The IEA also pointed out the \u201crebound effect,\u201d where the product\u2019s increased efficiency leads to more users adopting it; as a result, the product continues to consume more resources.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"pinbox right\">\n<h3 class=\"heading\">More must-read AI coverage<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_AI_offset_the_resources_it_consumes\"><\/span>Can AI offset the resources it consumes?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Tech companies still like to present themselves as good stewards. Google pursues energy-conscious certifications globally, including signing the Climate Neutral Data Centre Pact in Europe. Microsoft, which saw similar increases in water and electricity use in its 2024 sustainability reporting, is considering reopening a nuclear power plant at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania to power its AI data centers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE: The proliferation of AI has created a sustained boom in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/news-data-centers-power-cooling-ai\/\">data centers<\/a> and related infrastructure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Supporters of AI might argue its benefits outweigh the risks. Generative AI can be used in sustainability projects. AI can help comb through massive datasets of information about carbon emissions or track emissions of greenhouse gases. Additionally, AI companies are continually working on improving the efficiency of their models. But what \u201cefficiency\u201d really means always seems to be the catch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are some bottlenecks (like e.g. grid capacity) that could hold back the growth in AI and its power demand,\u201d said de Vries. \u201cThis is hard to predict, also considering that it\u2019s not possible to predict future demand for AI (for example the AI hype could fade to a certain extent), but any hope for limiting AI power demand comes from this. Due to the \u2018bigger is better\u2019 dynamic AI is fundamentally incompatible with environmental sustainability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then there is the question of how far down the supply chain AI\u2019s impact should be counted. \u201cIndirect emissions from the consumption of electricity are the most significant component of emissions from hardware manufacturing [of semiconductors,\u201d said the IEA in the Energy and AI report.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of hardware and its use has gone down as companies understand the needs of generative AI better and pivot to products focused on it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the hardware level, costs have declined by 30% annually, while energy efficiency has improved by 40% each year,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/news-stanford-2025-ai-index\/\">Stanford University\u2019s 2025 AI Index Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD: This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/resource-library\/it-policy\/it-data-center-green-energy-policy\/\">IT Data Center Green Energy Policy<\/a> from TechRepublic Premium<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Consider_how_generative_AI_affects_your_business_environmental_targets\"><\/span>Consider how generative AI affects your business\u2019 environmental targets<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Generative AI is becoming mainstream. Microsoft\u2019s Copilot is included by default in some PCs; smartphone makers are eagerly adding video editing AI and assistants; and Google gives out its Gemini Advanced model for free to students.<\/p>\n<p>Tech companies that set promising sustainability targets may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/article\/sustainability-goals-generative-ai-capgemini\/\">find it difficult to hit their goals<\/a> now that they produce and use generative AI products.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI can have dramatic impacts on ESG reports and also the ability of the companies concerned to reach their own climate goals,\u201d said de Vries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD: This Customizable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/resource-library\/hr-policy\/environmental-policy\/\">Environmental Policy<\/a> from TechRepublic Premium<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainability.google\/reports\/google-2024-environmental-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u2019s 2024 Environmental Report<\/a>, the tech giant\u2019s data centers consumed 17% more water than in 2023. Google attributed this to \u201cthe expansion of AI products and services\u201d and noted \u201csimilar growth in electricity use.\u201d Google\u2019s data center waste generation and water use both increased.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs AI adoption accelerates, IT leaders are increasingly aware that smarter devices don\u2019t directly correlate to more efficient power consumption,\u201d said Dan Root, head of global strategic alliances at ClickShare. \u201cThe spike in compute demand from AI tools means IT departments must look for offset opportunities elsewhere in their stack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the International Energy Agency pointed out in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/reports\/electricity-2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 electricity report<\/a>, both the source of electricity and the infrastructure need to be considered if the world is to meet the energy demands of AI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can make\/keep models a bit smaller to reduce their energy requirement, but this also means you have to be prepared to sacrifice performance,\u201d said de Vries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Galyna_Andrushko\/Envato Elements Generative AI is energy-intensive, and the ways in which its environmental impact can be calculated are complex. 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