Opinion / #digitalisation
While much of the AI debate focuses on its economic potential, its expanding physical footprint tells a different story. The machines driving this revolution depend on a resource far older – and far more contested – than data or electricity.
Booming growth in data centres is escalating electricity demand and risks undermining the region’s energy transition goals.
Digitalisation of government services is creating inequalities in the delivery of schemes to the marginalised.
Although artificial intelligence (AI) offers positive benefits for Southeast Asia’s climate battle, the region should not look at its usage through rose-tinted glasses. Without careful consideration, such systems may inadvertently undermine and be counterintuitive to the very climate goals that they aim to achieve.
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