The Environmental Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Energy, Water, and Sustainability

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The rapid integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into daily life is driving an unprecedented and escalating demand for computational resources, resulting in a significant and growing environmental footprint. This briefing synthesizes key data on AI's consumption of energy and water, its contribution to carbon emissions and e-waste, and the emerging strategies for mitigating these impacts.

The core of AI's environmental burden lies in the vast data centers required to train and operate its models. These facilities consumed 4.4% of U.S. electricity in 2023, a figure projected to triple by 2028. Globally, data center electricity consumption is on track to double between 202 ...