250 Eiffel Towers' worth of waste: The AI boom's toxic hardware problem
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ZDNET examines how the rapid expansion of AI data centers and turnover of servers and GPUs will increase electronic waste, highlighting environmental contamination, health risks to informal waste pickers, industry circularity efforts (like Microsoft and Google reuse programs), UN initiatives to study lifecycle impacts, and calls for including waste pickers in policy and safe recycling solutions.
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