TA: AI as the biggest threat to sustainability?

This week, while watching the Techritory event in Riga, Latvia, one panel, led by Industry Analyst Will Townsend, focused on the intersection of AI, data centres, and sustainability. The main question is, has AI become one of the biggest threats to sustainability?

The rise of AI has pushed data consumption and energy demand to levels we have never seen before. Every query, every model, every piece of generated content requires enormous computing power. Behind every chatbot and every predictive model are data centres running at full throttle.

And as we know, data centres are not known for being environmentally friendly.

The full article was posted first in the publication "Tomorrow's Affairs" on October 26th, 2025

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