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AI can help fight climate change and injustice — if it doesn’t make them worse, first

Study suggests many technology companies are wasting resources, repeating historic patterns of injustice as they build out AI systems.

Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks during the annual Game Developers Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on March 19, 2019. Google and other technology companies are expanding and building new data centers to house the volumes of servers needed to run artificial intelligence programs. (Photo by Josh Edelson, AFP/Getty Images)
Google Vice President Majd Bakar speaks during the annual Game Developers Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco, California on March 19, 2019. Google and other technology companies are expanding and building new data centers to house the volumes of servers needed to run artificial intelligence programs. (Photo by Josh Edelson, AFP/Getty Images)
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It takes lots of water and energy to keep densely packed computer servers for these systems cool and running smoothly.

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