Taxonomy reference

Environmental pressures from AI computing and infrastructure.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns environmental pressures from AI computing and infrastructure.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: AI electricity consumption

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Applications intended to understand, protect, restore, adapt, or decarbonize environmental systems.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns applications intended to understand, protect, restore, adapt, or decarbonize environmental systems.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: AI weather forecasting

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Rules, institutions, distributional effects, community impacts, labor, finance, and accountability.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns rules, institutions, distributional effects, community impacts, labor, finance, and accountability.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Data center permitting

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Methods to measure or reduce environmental impacts and improve computing practice.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns methods to measure or reduce environmental impacts and improve computing practice.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Carbon-aware computing

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Resources about the energy, water, infrastructure, materials, communities, and practices connected to data centers.

Environmental sustainability or sustainable computing spanning multiple environmental systems, without assuming a specific impact.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns environmental sustainability or sustainable computing spanning multiple environmental systems, without assuming a specific impact.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Broad environmental assessment of AI

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Governance, accountability, equity, finance, and social context relevant to the collection; not necessarily an environmental impact study.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns governance, accountability, equity, finance, and social context relevant to the collection; not necessarily an environmental impact study.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: AI governance framework

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Supporting research, data, geospatial and analytical methods; inclusion does not establish an environmental application.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns supporting research, data, geospatial and analytical methods; inclusion does not establish an environmental application.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Remote sensing data platform

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Learning, workforce development, and professional skills supporting work across this field.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns learning, workforce development, and professional skills supporting work across this field.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Sustainable computing course

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Electricity supply, demand, grids, fuels, and energy efficiency.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns electricity supply, demand, grids, fuels, and energy efficiency.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Electricity demand

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Greenhouse gas emissions, carbon accounting, mitigation, and climate systems.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns greenhouse gas emissions, carbon accounting, mitigation, and climate systems.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Carbon footprint

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Water withdrawal, consumption, quality, scarcity, and freshwater systems.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns water withdrawal, consumption, quality, scarcity, and freshwater systems.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Cooling water

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Materials, mining, critical minerals, and supply chains for computing.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns materials, mining, critical minerals, and supply chains for computing.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Semiconductor materials

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Electronic waste, reuse, recycling, and circular resource flows.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns electronic waste, reuse, recycling, and circular resource flows.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Hardware recycling

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Land conversion, siting, local heat, and noise effects.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns land conversion, siting, local heat, and noise effects.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Data center land use

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Air pollutants and associated exposure outside greenhouse gas accounting.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns air pollutants and associated exposure outside greenhouse gas accounting.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Backup generator pollution

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Species, habitats, ecosystem function, and conservation.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns species, habitats, ecosystem function, and conservation.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Wildlife monitoring

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Marine and coastal systems, sea levels, and ocean conservation.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns marine and coastal systems, sea levels, and ocean conservation.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Coastal flooding

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Farming, food systems, soil, and agricultural resource use.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns farming, food systems, soil, and agricultural resource use.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Crop forecasting

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Weather prediction, extreme events, hazards, resilience, and adaptation.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns weather prediction, extreme events, hazards, resilience, and adaptation.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Extreme weather forecasts

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Buildings, cities, infrastructure, and their environmental performance.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns buildings, cities, infrastructure, and their environmental performance.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Data center cooling

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Mobility, freight, transport, and logistics systems.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns mobility, freight, transport, and logistics systems.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Route optimization

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Extraction and processing of raw materials used in computing.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns extraction and processing of raw materials used in computing.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Mineral extraction

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Fabrication and assembly of chips, servers, and related hardware.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns fabrication and assembly of chips, servers, and related hardware.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Chip fabrication

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Planning, siting, permitting, and construction of data centers.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns planning, siting, permitting, and construction of data centers.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Facility construction

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Model development, experimentation, training, and fine-tuning.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns model development, experimentation, training, and fine-tuning.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Training energy

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Serving and running models in production or on devices.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns serving and running models in production or on devices.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Inference footprint

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Use of AI in environmental applications and services.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns use of AI in environmental applications and services.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: AI habitat monitoring

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Retirement, reuse, recycling, and disposal of computing hardware.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns retirement, reuse, recycling, and disposal of computing hardware.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Server retirement

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Claims about adverse effects or potential harm.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns claims about adverse effects or potential harm.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Water demand risk

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Claims about beneficial effects or opportunities.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns claims about beneficial effects or opportunities.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Improved conservation

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Interactions, competing outcomes, or induced demand.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns interactions, competing outcomes, or induced demand.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Efficiency rebound

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Measurement, accounting, reporting, and transparency.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns measurement, accounting, reporting, and transparency.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Emissions measurement

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Technical interventions intended to reduce impacts.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns technical interventions intended to reduce impacts.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Efficient inference

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Institutional or policy interventions.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns institutional or policy interventions.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Disclosure regulation

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.

Learning, training people, and building capacity.

Include: Assign when the source explicitly concerns learning, training people, and building capacity.

Exclude: Do not assign from incidental mentions or assume a demonstrated effect. Review the source context.

Example: Sustainable AI course

Version: 2.2.0-draft.1. Automated keyword matching proposes labels; a human must check context.