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The compute emissions tag examines the environmental costs of artificial intelligence and the institutional choices surrounding its use. Current coverage focuses on research universities, where academics may recognize AI’s footprint while responsibility is distributed among universities, funders, cloud providers, technology companies, and future policymakers. It considers why individual restraint alone may not address emissions as AI becomes routine research infrastructure, and highlights the need for institutions to make responsible use visible, rewarded, and technically possible. This tag is relevant to readers following AI sustainability, environmental accountability, and the practical challenges of managing compute emissions across research and technology systems.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Green AI in Universities: When Responsibility Gets Outsourced

    Environmental researchers at the University of Exeter have found that academics who understand AI’s environmental costs are still using it in research, while often shifting responsibility for those costs to universities, funders, cloud providers, technology companies, and future policymakers...