The AI Risk Nobody's Talking About (But Should Be) Al Gore has been sounding the alarm on climate change for decades, but when it comes to artificial intelligence, he's surprisingly calm about one of the most pressing concerns: data centers' carbon footprint.
In an interview with TechCrunch, Gore pointed out that while AI emissions are indeed a problem, they're dwarfed by other energy consuming behemoths – namely, air conditioning.
This might seem like an odd thing to say coming from the climate icon, but it's actually a crucial observation about the way we discuss and frame our environmental worries.