{"id":279729,"date":"2026-06-23T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/un-asks-ai-companies-to-reveal-full-environmental-impacts\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T17:40:11","slug":"un-asks-ai-companies-to-reveal-full-environmental-impacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/un-asks-ai-companies-to-reveal-full-environmental-impacts\/","title":{"rendered":"UN asks AI companies to reveal full environmental impacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2026\/06\/23\/un-ai-firms-to-reveal-full-environmental-impacts-data-centres-water-energy\/\">UN asks AI companies to reveal full environmental impacts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2026\/06\/23\/un-ai-firms-to-reveal-full-environmental-impacts-data-centres-water-energy\/\">https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2026\/06\/23\/un-ai-firms-to-reveal-full-environmental-impacts-data-centres-water-energy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 13:19:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.climatechangenews.com\">www.climatechangenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The head of the United Nations has launched an initiative aimed at holding artificial intelligence companies accountable for their exploding environmental impacts, including their carbon emissions, the amount of water and land used for data centres, and the energy they consume.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a speech at London Climate Action Week on Tuesday, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres noted that AI can accelerate climate solutions, among other key challenges, and said its potential must be harnessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut AI is also hungry for land, water and power,\u201d he emphasised, adding that the data centres needed to run AI models already consume more electricity than most countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UN Secretary-General repeated a call he first made in July 2025 for all big AI companies to commit to power every data centre with renewable energy by 2030.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some tech firms have announced they are sourcing or building out clean energy to run their hubs, but growing power demand is also contributing to gas-fired generation in the US, according to data from Global Energy Monitor.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align:center;\">\nAlready have an account?<br \/>\nLog in here \u2192<\/h6>\n<p>Our reporters are in the negotiating rooms at the Bonn climate talks. This is the coverage that other outlets often skip \u2014 get unlimited access from \u00a340\/quarter.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align:center;\">\nSubscribe to keep reading \u2192<\/h4>\n<h6 style=\"text-align:center;\">Or \u00a3130\/year \u2014 best value.<\/h6>\n<p><strong>The head of the United Nations has launched an initiative aimed at holding artificial intelligence companies accountable for their exploding environmental impacts, including their carbon emissions, the amount of water and land used for data centres, and the energy they consume.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a speech at London Climate Action Week on Tuesday, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres noted that AI can accelerate climate solutions, among other key challenges, and said its potential must be harnessed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut AI is also hungry for land, water and power,\u201d he emphasised, adding that the data centres needed to run AI models already consume more electricity than most countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UN Secretary-General repeated a call he&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2026\/06\/23\/un-ai-firms-to-reveal-full-environmental-impacts-data-centres-water-energy\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN asks AI companies to reveal full environmental impacts https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2026\/06\/23\/un-ai-firms-to-reveal-full-environmental-impacts-data-centres-water-energy\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-23 13:19:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/wp-content\/files\/2026\/06\/Data-centre-GettyImages-2271403529.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279731,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279729\/revisions\/279731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}