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Which side of the problem is this on?

AI for the environment 12 Greener AI 4

Environmental problem

What environmental problem does it work on?

Carbon and climate 6 Water 2 Oceans 2 Biodiversity and species 7 Air quality 3 Energy 5 Land and forests 1 Agriculture and food 0 Plastics, waste and pollution 1 Transportation 1

Environmental goal

What is it trying to achieve?

Cut emissions 7 Adapt and build resilience 1 Understand and monitor 10 Respond and recover 1 Protect species and habitats 5 Reduce pollution 1

Setting

Where does it happen?

Ocean 4 Freshwater 1 Forest 5 Farmland 0 City 3 Home 1 Industrial sites 1 Data centers 3 Power grid 4

AI's role

How central is AI to the work?

Core 11 One tool among many 1 Subject 1 None or minimal 3

What the AI does

What job does the AI do, in plain words?

Making sense of sensor data 5 Recognizing images 5 Recognizing sounds 3 Forecasting 3 Finding patterns 3 Optimizing systems 2 Processing text and documents 0

ML technique

Which machine-learning method? (for technical readers)

Computer vision 6 Time-series forecasting 3 Classification 5 Clustering 0 Reinforcement learning 0 Large language models 1 Optimization 2 None or not technique-specific 4 Other 0

Scale

How big is it?

Personal 1 Community 0 Organization 1 Regional or government 8 Industry 3 Global 6

Learnings Projects

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Reducing data centers' water consumption around the Great Salt Lake

Aspen Policy Academy. Proposed (handed to others to act on)

Mary-Clare Bosco, Jonathan Gilmour and Rebecca Kilberg, 2024 Aspen Policy Academy fellows, wrote a policy plan for Utah. They recommend that the Office of the Great Salt Lake Commissioner set water-efficiency targets for the tech sector...

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