https://www.infoq.com InfoQ GOTO Conference News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/AI-environmentally-sustainable/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=GOTO+Conference-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/10/AI-environmentally-sustainable/en/headerimage/header-1793174464846.jpg"/><p>IT is responsible for about 2 - 4% of all global emissions, and electricity use at Microsoft and Google has climbed because of AI, according to their own reports. Sustainability ought to be a top-level architectural concern. Some recommendations are: use pre-built and smaller models, run compute where low-carbon electricity is abundant, and train on renewable energy.</p> <i>By Ben Linders</i> Sustainable Computing Data Large language models IT Green Software GOTO Conference Cloud Computing AI, ML & Data Engineering Development Culture & Methods news Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:41:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/10/AI-environmentally-sustainable/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=GOTO+Conference-news Ben Linders 2026-10-29T11:41:00Z /news/2026/10/AI-environmentally-sustainable/en