AI's rapid expansion drives rising energy use, water consumption, electronic waste and unsustainable mineral demand across the technology's full lifecycle. UNEP traces these environmental pressures from large-model training through hardware disposal and examines governance gaps at international and national levels.
AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that.
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