What is AI really costing the planet?

👤 Dora Czerna
📅 2026-04-28

Many people tend to think of AI as invisible. You type a prompt, something smart appears, and that’s that. No smoke, no exhaust fumes, no obvious trace of the exchange. But somewhere, in vast warehouses running around the clock, banks of servers are doing very heavy lifting, burning through electricity at a rate that would give even the most ardent tech optimist pause.The question of what all … Full Product UX article at UX Collective »

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