Essay: DeepSeek claims to have cured AI’s environmental headache. The Jevons paradox suggests it might make things worse

In an article first published on The Conversation, PETER HOWSON, explains how improving the energy efficiency of AI platforms could worsen the industry’s environmental performance as a whole…
DATA PROCESSING: HOW CAT VIDEOS COULD CAUSE A “CLIMATE CHANGE NIGHTMARE”

UMBERTO BACCHI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on efforts to make data processing centres more energy efficient and sustainable…