The rise of artificial intelligence is requiring faster and bigger computations for even simple tasks compared to, say, a Google search. It’s adding to the demand for more internet data centers, but these facilities come at a big environmental cost, especially for the communities that host them. Science journalist Sachi Kitajima Mulkey joins Ali Rogin to discuss.
In his new book, Tad DeLay suggests there is no rosy roadmap to go forward – but there are things we can do
You are in denial about the climate crisis. We all are, argues the American scholar Tad DeLay. Right-wing climate deniers are not the only ones with a problem, he says when we speak in early June after the release of his book, Future of Denial. For denial doesn’t only amount to rejecting the evidence, he argues – it also consists of denying our role in the climate crisis; absolving ourselves through “carbon offsets, hybrid cars, local purchases, recycling”. And in this, far more of us are implicated.
Six years in the making, jaw-dropping new film The Grab shows a secret scramble by governments and private firms to buy up global resources,
LINK: https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/12/the-grab-documentary-review#webview=1
