The Hidden Carbon Cost of Enterprise AI: 5 Ways to Cut Emissions Without Cutting Usage - Episode 123

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Paul discusses the overlooked carbon emissions from enterprise AI and how companies are failing to account for it.

Let us know how we're doing - text us feedback or thoughts on episode content AI is quietly becoming one of the fastest-growing sources of corporate greenhouse gas emissions — yet not a single Fortune 500 sustainability report specifically calls it out. In this episode, Paul exposes the growing gap between AI's real emissions impact and how companies are (not) accounting for it. Drawing on a Capgemini Research survey of 2,000 executives — 48% of whom say AI has already materially impacted the...

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Host: Paul Schuster

Topics covered

• AI emissions
• corporate sustainability
• greenhouse gas emissions
• enterprise AI
• climate impact

Keywords

• AI
• emissions
• sustainability
• greenhouse gases
• corporate responsibility

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Organizations: Capgemini, Fortune 500

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