AI Could Be Harnessed to Cut More Emissions Than It Creates

Artificial intelligence could cut global climate pollution by up to 5.4 billion metric tons a year over the next decade if it’s harnessed in ways that would improve transportation, energy and food production.

Those reductions would outweigh even the expected increase in global energy consumption and emissions that would be created by running power-hungry data centers associated with AI, according to research by the Grantham Research Institute that was published in the journal npj Climate Action.