The Promises and Perils for Sustainability in the U.S. Military’s Adoption of AI

Published on May 30, 2024

A security fence surrounds the NSA's Utah data collection center on March 17, 2017 in Bluffdale, Utah. The 1.5 billion dollar data center, thought to be the worlds largest on the order of exabytes or larger supports the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI) of the United States Government

AI threatens to further increase carbon emissions. But the U.S. government, especially the Pentagon, has an opportunity to incentivize energy-efficient computing and even use AI to save fuel.

For years, the U.S. national security establishment has pushed to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) into every element of its operations. But all of that computing power could come at a significant cost in energy and greenhouse gas emissions.

The Pentagon is already among the top users of computing power within the federal government, and researchers estimate intelligence agencies could soon use as much data as tech giants such as Amazon and Meta.

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