AI & Sustainability: The elephant in the room?

This event explores the tension between artificial intelligence's growing adoption and its environmental impact, particularly the substantial energy demands of data centres that power AI systems. While AI offers significant benefits for efficiency, sustainability, and decision-making across industries and education, the expansion of data centres needed to support widespread AI use threatens to dramatically increase electricity consumption. The discussion addresses the overlooked environmental cost of AI advancement, with projections warning that US data centre energy consumption could double within four years.