Reupload – The AI race and its environmental cost

Before the launch of the new season of our daily podcast, we invite you to listen again to the best content produced in 2025. Artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek require immense computing power to train and operate. That demand has sparked a global construction boom of data centres, the physical backbone of AI.…

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Before the launch of the new season of our daily podcast, we invite you to listen again to the best content produced in 2025.

Artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek require immense computing power to train and operate. That demand has sparked a global construction boom of data centres, the physical backbone of AI. But as billions are poured into ever-larger facilities, is the world ready for the environmental and energy costs of this new digital infrastructure?

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