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AI and Environmental Sustainability: Risks, Opportunities, and What Comes Next

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the environmental sustainability agenda, creating both new pressures and tools for change. This report explores how the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure drives energy, water, and materials impacts while also enabling companies to use the same technology to accelerate decarbonization, efficiency, and resilience goals.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the environmental sustainability agenda, creating both new pressures and tools for change. This report explores how the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure drives energy, water, and materials impacts while also enabling companies to use the same technology to accelerate decarbonization, efficiency, and resilience goals.

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