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AI’s Sustainability Blind Spot: Electronic Waste
Over the past year, my research has first highlighted the rapidly growing power demand of AI systems, followed ...
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The hidden carbon and water footprint of AI
AI systems may now have a carbon footprint equivalent to that of New York City in 2025, while ...
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AI power demand rapidly escalating
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly becoming the largest energy hog within worldwide digital infrastructure. In my latest research, ...
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A deep dive into cryptocurrency decentralization
In recent years it has become well known that cryptocurrency networks such as the Bitcoin network are energy ...
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Powering AI could use as much electricity as a small country
It has been nine years since Digiconomist was first launched with the objective of “exposing the unintended consequences ...
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The Latest Hype in NFTs is a Climate Disaster: On-Chain Bitcoin NFTs
It wasn’t long ago non-fungible tokens (NFTs) were making headlines for their excessive environmental impact. Most of these ...
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New research highlights success of Ethereum’s merge
A new article published in the peer-reviewed journal “Patterns” has caught the attention of various mainstream media such ...
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