electronic waste

The graphics processing unit has become the engine room of the artificial intelligence boom, transforming a component once associated mainly with video games into one of the world’s most strategically important—and environmentally contentious—technologies. As Nvidia’s data-center revenue surges...

Colorado consumer advocates are using Windows 10’s end of support as Exhibit A in a new campaign against devices becoming unusable because their software support expires. As reported by The Colorado Sun, CoPIRG staged a mock graveside service for obsolete electronics in Denver on Wednesday, with...

Generative AI’s environmental cost is increasingly tied to the physical infrastructure behind it: data centers, electricity generation, cooling systems and the rapid replacement of server hardware. A report published by Lamar University Press examines that tradeoff as AI tools such as Microsoft...