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What are the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence? 

Union of Concerned Scientists

One growing conversation in the use or non-use of GenAI is the environmental implications of the technology in every step of its life cycle. These statements overlook who bears these health and environmental costs, and who gets to decide what trade-offs are acceptable. In 2023, it increased to 4.4% (176 TWh) of the total U.S.

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Beyond the Cloud: What’s AI’s True Environmental Cost? Part 2

Enviromental Defense

Goldman Sachs analysis predicts that by 2028, AI will represent about 19 per cent of all data centre power demand. The specialized chips, servers, and cooling systems used in AI and data centres require enormous quantities of resources to manufacture and are frequently replaced as technology advances.

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Republican Attack on Science Targets Water Research that Benefits All

Circle of Blue

The Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Health and Human Services removed websites that housed data on the unequal burdens of pollution and how they affect personal and public health. Lucks said that the projects funding, which was initially approved through 2028, has not yet been cut.

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Here Comes the Fossil Fuel Agenda

Union of Concerned Scientists

Not for the betterment of the US public, as these actions would freeze, repeal, or actively undermine critical public health and environmental protections. New pipelines, and new LNG terminals, are actively under constructionthe latter of which are already projected to nearly double LNG capacity by 2028. And those solutions?

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How Will DTE’s Long-Term Plan Impact Michigan’s Clean Energy Future?

Union of Concerned Scientists

DTE’s goal is to reach “net-zero” emissions by 2050 while reducing its carbon emissions from 2005 levels 65 percent by 2028, 85 percent by 2035, and 90 percent by 2040. DTE asserts that it needs Belle River to achieve the partial retirement of Monroe in 2028. What’s in DTE’s proposed plan?

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Here’s how North America’s first utility-scale solar recycling plant is ramping up for the clean energy boom

Environmental News Bits

We Recycle Solar is deploying new machinery and technology to quadruple its processing capacity to 522 million pounds per year by 2028. Read the full story at Eletrek.

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UCS Testimony on the Clean Hydrogen Production Tax Credit

Union of Concerned Scientists

UCS supports Treasury’s proposed temporal-matching requirement, with a phase-in of hourly matching by 2028 with no exemptions for legacy producers. Offsets would be entirely discordant with the intention of 45V, which is specifically designed to incentivize technology and process innovations to enable truly clean hydrogen production.