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Catholic leaders urge ethical scrutiny of AI data centers' energy and water use
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Catholic leaders in social teaching, environmental stewardship, and advocacy said the Church is not opposed to artificial intelligence itself.
“But it is very concerned about the ethics involved in the design of these tools and the data centers.”
Why data centers matterData centers house the computer servers that process and store information behind artificial intelligence systems.
“Water, energy use, the type of energy being used, and e-waste are big problems,” he said.
In Virginia — the world’s largest data center market — 83% of data centers use the same or less water than an average commercial office building.