The idea of an AI footprint is like a carbon footprint, a way to calculate the environmental costs of certain actions.

Chethan Sarabu, director of clinical innovation for the health tech hub at Cornell Tech, previews his HIMSS26 talk on AI’s ...

OpenAI's recent rollout of its new video generator Sora 2 marks a watershed moment in AI. Its ability to generate minutes of hyper-realistic footage from a few lines of text is astonishing, and has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From job displacement and plagiarism to questions about accuracy and privacy risks, generative artificial intelligence — or genAI ...

The temptation exists to frame this as an either-or choice: prioritize AI innovation or protect the environment. That framing ...

AI’s rising use drives energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions Data centers powering AI consume massive electricity and water supplies Simple AI prompts can use 20x more energy than basic Google ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the United States rapidly builds massive data centers for the development of artificial intelligence, many Americans are concerned about the environmental impact. Worries about ...

As massive data centers move into residential neighborhoods, Black communities are questioning the environmental, economic, and energy costs of AI’s rapid expansion.

India faces a growing concern as AI data centers consume massive amounts of water. This video examines the environmental and ...

The results of the poll, conducted in September, suggest that as AI reshapes work, communication and culture, it’s also sparking anxieties about how the growing energy demands could further harm the ...