{"id":1016554,"date":"2026-06-24T08:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016554"},"modified":"2026-06-24T08:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:44:37","slug":"un-chief-calls-on-ai-firms-to-come-clean-on-environmental-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/24\/un-chief-calls-on-ai-firms-to-come-clean-on-environmental-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"UN chief calls on AI firms to come clean on environmental costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations called on major artificial intelligence companies \u200bon Tuesday to publicly disclose the \u200bfull environmental cost of their data centres and use renewable \u200bpower, as he launched a transparency initiative for the sector. <\/p>\n<p>The rapid development of data centres globally to fuel the AI revolution has drawn scrutiny from environmental groups for their high energy and \u200cwater use \u2060and lack \u2060of transparency. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By 2030, they could use more power than all but five countries &#8211; and enough water to meet the basic needs of all 1.3 billion residents of sub\u2011Saharan Africa for an entire year,&#8221; U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at an address during London Climate Action Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations called on major artificial intelligence companies \u200bon Tuesday to publicly disclose the \u200bfull environmental cost of their data centres and use renewable \u200bpower, as he launched a transparency initiative for the sector. The rapid development of data centres globally to fuel the AI revolution has drawn scrutiny from environmental groups for their high energy and \u200cwater use \u2060and lack \u2060of transparency. &#8220;By 2030, they could use more power than all but five countries &#8211; and enough water to meet the basic needs of all 1.3 billion residents of sub\u2011Saharan Africa for an entire year,&#8221; U.N. Secretary-General Antonio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016578,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016554\/revisions\/1016578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}