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How sustainable is AI?
Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka
|November 13, 2025
Lecture By Justice Shiranee Tilakawardane
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming industries, with global adoption reaching 72% in 2024. However, this expansion coincides with escalating climate concerns. The environmental footprint of digitalization is a pressing concern as this digital transformation is taking place in parallel with the depletion of raw materials, water stress, pollution and waste generation. There is an ongoing climate crisis with 2024 being declared the warmest year on record with the occurrence of extreme climate events.
The environmental footprint of Al spans its entire life cycle, hardware production, software development, training, inference, and disposal, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, raw material depletion, and e-waste.
This story is from the November 13, 2025 edition of Daily Mirror - Sri Lanka.
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