{"id":14520,"date":"2025-05-22T15:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T22:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2025\/ais-environmental-equation-balancing-innovation-with-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:43:29","slug":"ais-environmental-equation-balancing-innovation-with-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2025\/ais-environmental-equation-balancing-innovation-with-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"AI\u2019s Environmental Equation: Balancing Innovation with Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Climate\/Computer Science\/ Mathematics, 2024\u201325<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Jose Pablo Ortiz-Partida<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Lynn Kirabo<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Taylor Backer (TL-F), Lucie Batista (TL-S), Sarah An, Emilynne Newsom, Trevor Shepherd<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">Aligned with the mission of the Union of Concerned Scientists\u2014a nonprofit that puts independent science into action and advocates for a healthy, safe, and just future\u2014this project calls for an examination of water and energy usage patterns in artificial intelligence (AI) systems through a comprehensive literature review of data center operations. The research analyzes current reporting practices regarding AI\u2019s environmental impact and evaluates resource consumption projections. As a complement to the literature review, the Clinic team developed an interactive informational website that defines key metrics and provides context around AI infrastructure\u2019s environmental footprint.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Climate\/Computer Science\/ Mathematics, 2024\u201325 Liaison(s): Jose Pablo Ortiz-Partida Advisor(s): Lynn Kirabo Students(s): Taylor Backer (TL-F), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,705,140,185],"tags":[734],"class_list":["post-14520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-2","category-climate","category-computer-science","category-mathematics","tag-union-of-concerned-scientists-ucs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14570,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14520\/revisions\/14570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}