AI’s contributions to wildlife conservation (cartoon)

AI’s contributions to wildlife conservation (cartoon)

While AI has faced a lot of rightful flak for its environmental impacts, it has also become a tool for wildlife conservation around the world. From monitoring deforestation, impacts of climate change and enhancing wildlife population counts to combating poaching and illegal wildlife trade, AI is revolutionising conservation worldwide.

The Unseen Environmental Impact Of AI - Infrastructure news

Sitting at your computer and entering a prompt into ChatGPT feels far removed from the environmental troubles plaguing the Earth. The truth is that AI – especially the data centres used to train them – have a massive environmental impact. AI models like ChatGPT require data centres, which have data storage facilities where complex computational scenarios can be run to ‘train’ the AI model. To do this, these data centres require a staggering amou…