Indian Entrepreneur@indianentrepreneurEnvironmental groups are using AI to study climate data, track wildfires and tally threatened animals, even as they warn that the data centers that run it are driving up electricity use, water use and emissions.
Kenya's Save the Elephants says AI now works through an aerial survey in hours, a job that once took nine people nine months by hand. Manual counts had also overlooked about a third of the elephants.
The International Energy Agency projects data centers will use about 945 terawatt-hours of electricity a year by 2030, double current levels.
