{
  "id": 17059909,
  "title": "How to Make Artificial Intelligence More Environmentally Sustainable",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/how-to-make-artificial-intelligence-more-environmentally-sustainable",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-29T11:41:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "InfoQ",
    "slug": "infoq",
    "url": "https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/AI-environmentally-sustainable/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "IT is responsible for about 2 - 4% of all global emissions, and electricity use at Microsoft and Google has climbed because of AI, according to their own reports. Sustainability ought to be a top-level architectural concern. Some recommendations are: use pre-built and smaller models, run compute where low-carbon electricity is abundant, and train on renewable energy. By Ben Linders",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}