arXiv:2603. 26678v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI and renewable energy are increasingly framed as a "power couple," on the premise that surging AI demand will accelerate clean-energy investment, yet concerns persist that AI will entrench fossil-fuel carbon lock-in.
By Luyi Gui, Tinglong Dai
arXiv:2606. 14707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI training and deployment consume substantial electricity, but carbon outcomes remain weakly integrated into routine model development decisions.
By Yuxin Chen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Hao Gao (Independent Researcher), Chujie Zou (University of Helsinki, Finland)
arXiv:2605. 23348v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI power demand is growing at an unprecedented rate while power grids are often ailing and struggle to keep up.
By Tella Rajashekhar Reddy, Atharva Deshmukh, Liangcheng Yu, Chaojie Zhang, Mike Shepperd, Rohan Gandhi, Anjaly Parayil, Srinivasan Iyengar, Ajay Manchepalli, Debopam Bhattacherjee
arXiv:2608. 12363v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: European countries are debating policies to mitigate the increased energy costs caused by renewed geopolitical tensions, while pursuing decarbonization and electrification.
By Javier Gonzalez-Ruiz, Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Alice Di Bella, Paolo Mastropietro, Jose Pablo Chavez-Avila, Massimo Tavoni
arXiv:2608. 12915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid growth of LLM inference is shifting sustainability concerns from one-time training to continuous serving, where infrastructure decisions shape energy use, carbon emissions, water consumption, and service quality.
By Nicoletta Tsiopani, Moysis Symeonides, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos
arXiv:2606. 09617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid expansion of AI globally has led to the proliferation of energy-intensive hyperscale data centres (DCs), making them as a structurally challenging component in power system planning and operation.
By Mohammad Hemmati, Gbemi Oluleye, Vassilis M. Charitopoulos