AI E-Waste: A New Threat from This Technology

New forecast results show that the massive push to build thousands of large data centers to develop artificial intelligence will generate a wave of disposable electronic equipment, putting the world on a path where annual production of toxic electronic waste triples over the next 25 years.

A massive effort to build thousands of massive data centers aimed at developing artificial intelligence will create a wave of disposable electronics and put the world on track to triple annual production of toxic e-waste over the next 25 years, new forecast results show.