{"id":4803,"date":"2026-06-04T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T16:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=4803"},"modified":"2026-07-01T16:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:55:22","slug":"ais-environmental-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/thoughts\/ais-environmental-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental cost of AI&#8217;s energy use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations University just published a report on the crazy environmental cost of global Artificial Intelligence deployment, not the most joyous read of the year but very informative and well researched. More evidence that one should think twice before asking chatgeminigroklaude to generate a video of their cat in a space suit flying over a cheese planet populated by rainbow coloured mice for example.<\/p>\n<p>Read the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/unu.edu\/inweh\/news\/environmental-cost-of-AIs-Enrgy-use-carbon-water-and-land-footprints\">HERE<\/a>, click on the image below for the full report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collections.unu.edu\/eserv\/UNU:10647\/UNU-INWEH-Report-The_Env_Cost_of_AI-2026.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Env_Cost_of_AI-2026-UNReport.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Env_Cost_of_AI-2026-UNReport.png 300w, https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The_Env_Cost_of_AI-2026-UNReport-212x300.png 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations University just published a report on the crazy environmental cost of global Artificial Intelligence deployment, not the most joyous read of the year but very informative and well researched. More evidence that one should think twice before asking chatgeminigroklaude to generate a video of their cat in a space suit flying over a cheese planet populated by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4803"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4812,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4803\/revisions\/4812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}