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Generative AI's environmental impact in figures

A photograph taken on July 8, 2020 shows generators of the new MRS3 Interxion datacenter, settled in a former submarine base built by the Germans during the Second World War, in Marseille harbour, southern France. [AFP]

The surge in generative artificial intelligence (AI) is being met with growing fears about the technology's ecological footprint, one of the top questions up for discussion at a global summit in Paris on February 10-11.

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