Students pitch Google at N+1’s AI sustainability competition

Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) informs, automates, and guides our lives. But to do so, it consumes increased amounts of power.

Most of this happens in corporate data centers, where data storage and processing both facilitates our AI habit and complicates global sustainability goals. So how does a company like Google—a leader in the AI space race with a lofty goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2030—maintain progress towards reducing the carbon footprint of its data centers?

By turning to some of AI’s staunchest advocates: science-minded college students.

Read more here: https://www.cs.wisc.edu/2024/12/17/students-pitch-google-n-plus-one-ai-sustainability-competition/