Simón Stiell (UN) demands greater climate commitment from large technology companies because AI consumes a lot of energy

The UN Executive Secretary for Climate Change, Simon Stiell, called on large technology companies on Monday to be more committed and involved in combating climate change because artificial intelligence (AI) is a “major consumer of energy”.

The president pointed out that AI is increasing pollution generated by coal, oil and gas – which warm the planet – and that it is driving up energy costs for households and businesses, in his keynote speech at the Industrial Transition Accelerator Industrial Acceleration Summit in New York. Leaders in the AI sector, he said, “are now on swampy ground” because “they are sinking deep when it comes to public support”.

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