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Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts

Climate One · 2024-04-19

AI is being deployed across both generative and predictive applications, but while generative AI demands enormous energy and data center infrastructure, predictive AI offers more efficient, targeted tools for climate solutions, such as emissions tracking, renewable grid forecasting, and extreme weather nowcasting, highlighting a crucial trade-off between innovation and sustainability.

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Climate One. 2024-04-19. Artificial Intelligence, Real Climate Impacts. https://www.climateone.org/audio/artificial-intelligence-real-climate-impacts (AI & Environment Resource Hub; record pod-0067; collection snapshot 2026-09-15).

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Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Energy and electricity; Climate and greenhouse gases; Weather, hazards, and adaptation; Built environment and infrastructure

Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Energy and electricity; Climate and greenhouse gases; Weather, hazards, and adaptation; Built environment and infrastructure

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Susanna Kass, operating partner at Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partners and senior data center advisor to the UN SDGs, shares how absolute-zero data center design, grid collaboration and circular economy thinking can enable sustainable, resilient and capital-efficient data centers as AI demand accelerates.

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Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Energy and electricity; Climate and greenhouse gases; Weather, hazards, and adaptation; Built environment and infrastructure

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The AI, Climate, and Energy Connection

This course will help you understand AI's climate implications and identify practical next steps within your organization. The course begins with demystifying the connection between AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), data centers, and energy and water demand. Then you will learn about AI's environmental footprint, the related environmental and community impacts, you will evaluate real-world applications of AI across climate adaptation, energy transition, and nature conservation, and understand the business and policy landscape shaping corporate decisions.

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Shared topics: Cross-cutting sustainability; Energy and electricity; Climate and greenhouse gases; Weather, hazards, and adaptation