Global AI e-waste up to 60 times worse than estimated: report

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You’re probably underestimating just how much e-waste is put out by companies using AI. That’s according to new analysis from environmental non-profit Basel Action Network (BAN). In the first of a four-part white paper called The Coming AI Waste Wave, BAN found that by 2030, an estimated 8.6 to…