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Rapid expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure could generate up to 617 million metric tons of electronic waste by 2050, significantly exceeding prior industry estimates, according to a new report from environmental group Basel Action Network.
As tech companies accelerate data center construction to fuel artificial intelligence workloads, local communities and activists across the U.S. are organizing to block new developments due to environmental, public health, and power grid concerns.
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to dismantle federal limits on power plant greenhouse gas emissions, citing rising energy demand from artificial intelligence data centers, electric vehicles, and domestic manufacturing.
During SpaceX's second-quarter earnings call, CEO Elon Musk announced that the company will rely exclusively on Nvidia hardware to power its artificial intelligence clusters and external supercomputing leases.
Canadian cloud provider ThinkOn is broadening its VMware-based infrastructure to deliver private artificial intelligence environments, catering to public sector and enterprise demands for data control and predictable computing costs.
Silicon Data’s LLM Token Expenditure Index fell to $0.9665 per million tokens on Aug. 31, reflecting a steep drop in effective inference costs as enterprises shift toward smaller open-weight models and automated model routing.
At the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, top executives from OpenAI, Nvidia, Anthropic, and Palantir joined federal cabinet officials to debate AI integration, domestic manufacturing tariffs, and data center expansion.
