Capital de TokensAI doesn't float: the cloud consumes land, water, and electricity
Watch on YouTube Artificial intelligence is often presented as something ethereal: an app, an instant answer, an image generated in seconds. But AI has a geography. It needs chips, undersea cables, substations, land, water for cooling in some designs, and a grid capable of sustaining enormous loads without leaving
Artificial intelligence is often presented as something ethereal: an app, an instant answer, an image generated in seconds. But AI has a geography. It needs chips, undersea cables, substations, land, water for cooling in some designs, and a grid capable of sustaining enormous loads without leaving households and small businesses behind. In regions where electricity and water are already contested resources, installing digital infrastructure on a massive scale requires especially transparent planning. And simply saying that renewable energy will be used is not enough. The key issue is additionality: if the project funds new clean energy capacity, storage, and transmission, it can accelerate the transition. If it consumes renewable electricity that was already serving other needs, the actual footprint changes.
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