Nobody Knows How Bad Corporate AI Emissions Really Are. This Startup Has a Way to Estimate Them

Nobody knows how bad corporate AI emissions really are. This startup has a way to estimate them

More and more companies are implementing artificial intelligence into both their internal workflows and their external products, and that AI use comes with an environmental impact. Already, AI data centers are driving a surge in electricity demand that is outpacing supply. But that impact likely isn’t showing up on all corporate sustainability reports yet, because accounting for corporate AI emissions is a challenge—particularly when companies a…

A New Guesstimate for Corporate AI Emissions

With companies now rapidly adding artificial intelligence into their products and using it across their workstreams, it stands to reason that all that extra energy use might show up in their climate accounting. But to any business that wants to get a sense of how big its AI-related emissions footprint is becoming — and, god forbid, maybe even try to reduce it — I say well, good luck. AI providers mostly keep the data required to make such calcul…