<p>The already formidable environmental toll of generative AI is even worse than it seems because businesses aren't being transparent about the emissions given off by their enormous AI datacenters. Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon and one of the largest cloud computing platforms in the world, doesn't provide location-based or data center-specific statistics in its emissions reports. That means it's impossible to tell how much greenhouse gases the massive facilities — and specifically, ones that host or train AI models — are producing. "The environmental impact of AWS is not broken out specifically, and you can only find the […]</p>