Modern artificial intelligence (AI) can sometimes use enormous quantities of energy and contributes to around 1.5% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide today. That number is anticipated to grow as AI becomes more widespread, more powerful and more demanding in its energy consumption. The International Energy Agency anticipates AI will be responsible for around 3% of global emissions by 2030.
But AI could also reduce our energy consumption in other ways, by making buildings, utilities and devices more efficient, for instance. AI could also mitigate the pollution associated with oil and gas production.
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One expert told AP News that AI could lower power consumption by automatically adjusting lighting, ventilation, heating and cooling within buildings. Around one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas pollution comes from homes and buildings.
Google’s Project Green Light, meanwhile, aims to use AI to optimize traffic, hoping to reduce “stop-and-go” traffic emissions by as much as 30%. That could also improve air quality, especially in urban areas.
