Towards Sustainable Artificial Intelligence: Foundations and Recommendations.
- The report identifies the energy and resource consumption of AI—particularly in data centers—as a major environmental burden and calls for stronger measures to measure and manage these impacts.
- Key recommendations include expanding environmental reporting for AI, creating transparency around environmental impacts across the value chain, and setting sustainability requirements for data centers.
- Redesigning data collection, transmission, and storage practices, along with targeted government investment, are seen as crucial to minimizing AI’s environmental impact in the long term and positioning the UK as a leader in AI resource efficiency.
Source: National Engineering Policy Centre (UK), 02.2025 – Report on measures to reduce the environmental footprint of AI.