India, June 4 -- As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates globally, attention is increasingly shifting beyond computing power and model performance to the environmental cost of the infrastructure that supports it. Ahead of World Environment Day on 5 June, sustainability is emerging as a central concern in discussions around digital infrastructure, particularly as AI-driven workloads increase pressure on data centres, the facilities that underpin cloud computing, digital services and large-scale AI processing. As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption accelerates globally, attention is increasingly shifting beyond computing power and model performance to the environmental cost of the infrastructure that supports it.

The rapid ...