{"id":279908,"date":"2026-06-23T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/un-secretary-general-urges-ai-giants-to-disclose-environmental-impact\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T21:20:09","slug":"un-secretary-general-urges-ai-giants-to-disclose-environmental-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/23\/un-secretary-general-urges-ai-giants-to-disclose-environmental-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"UN secretary general urges AI giants to disclose environmental impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esgdive.com\/news\/un-secretary-general-guterres-urges-ai-giants-to-disclose-environmental-impact-renewables-2030\/823554\/\">UN secretary general urges AI giants to disclose environmental impact<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esgdive.com\/news\/un-secretary-general-guterres-urges-ai-giants-to-disclose-environmental-impact-renewables-2030\/823554\/\">https:\/\/www.esgdive.com\/news\/un-secretary-general-guterres-urges-ai-giants-to-disclose-environmental-impact-renewables-2030\/823554\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-23 17:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.esgdive.com\">www.esgdive.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Listen to the article<\/p>\n<p>            <span class=\"text-to-speech__button__audio-length\">4 min<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback.<\/p>\n<h3>Dive Brief:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>United Nations Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres proposed a framework for artificial intelligence companies to disclose their impacts as part of the UN\u2019s plan for global energy independence.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>In a <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>London Climate Action Week keynote<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span> on Tuesday, Guterres called on \u201cevery major AI company\u201d to measure and publicly disclose their full environmental footprint, including emissions, water and land usage. The UN chief also called on AI companies to commit to powering every data center with renewable energy by 2030.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cNo more hidden costs. No more shifting the burden onto those least able to bear it,\u201d Guterres said, according to the UN transcript. \u201cIt is time to come clean. If AI is to help build a better future, it must be honest about what it costs us now.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Dive Insight:<\/h3>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Guterres issued the call for AI companies to disclose their environmental impacts and commit to powering data centers with renewables as part of a seven-point plan for energy independence.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>In the United States, data center electricity consumption is projected to grow 300% over the next 10 years and account for \u201c38% of net electricity consumption through 2037,\u201d according to <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>the National Electrical Manufacturers Association<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span><span><span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Guterres said that, globally, AI has the potential by 2030 to use more power than \u201call but five countries\u201d and \u201cenough water to meet the basic needs of all 1.3 billion residents of sub\u2011Saharan Africa for an entire year.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span><span><span><span>\u201cAs demand for energy continues to rise, we must confront one of its fastest growing sources:\u00a0 AI data centers,\u201d Guterres said. \u201cArtificial intelligence can accelerate climate solutions. It can&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esgdive.com\/news\/un-secretary-general-guterres-urges-ai-giants-to-disclose-environmental-impact-renewables-2030\/823554\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN secretary general urges AI giants to disclose environmental impact https:\/\/www.esgdive.com\/news\/un-secretary-general-guterres-urges-ai-giants-to-disclose-environmental-impact-renewables-2030\/823554\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-23 17:03:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":279910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imgproxy.divecdn.com\/oxwGN8LvlhdutblfjDdIadlo5MTBh-0HwMjTWgMZA00\/g:nowe:0:65\/c:8192:4628\/rs:fit:770:435\/Z3M6Ly9kaXZlc2l0ZS1zdG9yYWdlL2RpdmVpbWFnZS9HZXR0eUltYWdlcy0xNDQwMTk4Mzc4LmpwZw==.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279908","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\/279908"}],"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=279908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279912,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279908\/revisions\/279912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}