{"id":225229,"date":"2026-06-03T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/un-calculates-nation-sized-environmental-footprints-for-ai-and-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T14:50:10","slug":"un-calculates-nation-sized-environmental-footprints-for-ai-and-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/un-calculates-nation-sized-environmental-footprints-for-ai-and-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"UN calculates nation-sized environmental footprints for AI and data centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/06\/03\/ai-data-centers-environment-climate-footprint\/b17491d8-5f54-11f1-9c46-d6211372eede_story.html\">UN calculates nation-sized environmental footprints for AI and data centers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/06\/03\/ai-data-centers-environment-climate-footprint\/b17491d8-5f54-11f1-9c46-d6211372eede_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/06\/03\/ai-data-centers-environment-climate-footprint\/b17491d8-5f54-11f1-9c46-d6211372eede_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 10:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.washingtonpost.com\">www.washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The environmental footprint of data centers is now comparable to some of the world&#8217;s largest countries, as highlighted in a United Nations University report.<\/li>\n<li>According to the report, global data centers consumed 448 trillion watt-hours of electricity last year, more than all but 10 countries globally.<\/li>\n<li>The carbon dioxide emissions from this electricity use were approximately 208 million tons, roughly the same amount as Argentina.<\/li>\n<li>Data centers used about 1.2 trillion gallons (4.5 trillion liters) of water in the past year to produce this energy.<\/li>\n<li>The report predicts that data centers&#8217; water and energy use, as well as their associated pollution, will double within four years due to the increasing use of artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN calculates nation-sized environmental footprints for AI and data centers https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/2026\/06\/03\/ai-data-centers-environment-climate-footprint\/b17491d8-5f54-11f1-9c46-d6211372eede_story.html Publish Date: 2026-06-03 10:42:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/RUGLRTKULZB6XPESJMXXJVLTDI.jpeg&w=1440","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-225229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225231,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225229\/revisions\/225231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}