Oct 1, 2024 - Can clean energy handle the AI boom?
How our digital lives are impacting our climate goals. In our new series, Explain it To Me, Vox takes audience questions and we do our best to report, investigate and deliver an answer. For this video, a retired schoolteacher in New York named Kathy submitted a question to us about how things like cryptocurrency, cloud storage and artificial intelligence are impacting our climate goals. Crypto, AI and cloud storage are all a part of the carbon footprint of data centers. In this video we unpack what exactly we know about data centers` growing electricity demands, how AI is factoring into that picture, and whether renewable energy can keep up.