Artificial intelligence companies have high ambitions for what the technology can achieve, from curing disease to eradicating poverty. But the energy needed to power these innovations threatens critical environmental targets.
Madeleine Finlay hears from the Guardian’s energy correspondent Jillian Ambrose and UK technology editor Alex Hern to find out how big AI’s energy problem is, and whether it can be solved before it’s too late
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