250 Eiffel Towers' worth of waste: The AI boom's toxic hardware problem

24-07-2026 14:05 via zdnet.com

250 Eiffel Towers' worth of waste: The AI boom's toxic hardware problem

Chips, servers, cables, and more could compound an already massive problem - here's who it affects and what's being done about it.

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