{"id":74991,"date":"2026-06-24T12:09:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/06\/24\/un-chief-calls-on-ai-firms-to-come-clean-on-environmental-impact-of-data-centers\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:09:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:09:31","slug":"un-chief-calls-on-ai-firms-to-come-clean-on-environmental-impact-of-data-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/2026\/06\/24\/un-chief-calls-on-ai-firms-to-come-clean-on-environmental-impact-of-data-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Chief Calls On AI Firms To &#8220;come Clean&#8221; On Environmental Impact Of Data Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div id=\"divBody\">\n<div id=\"ctl00_CPI_dvBody\">\n<p> As a deadly heatwave continued to grip Europe on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres issued an impassioned appeal for more ambitious global action on climate change caused by fossil fuels, to prevent irreversible damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fade-paragraph\">In a major keynote speech at London Climate Action Week, the UN chief called on AI firms to &#8220;come clean&#8221; on the full environmental impact of data centers in terms their carbon, water and land footprints.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall-wrapper\">\n<p><i class=\"bi bi-lock-fill\"\/> Subscribe to continue reading the article.<\/p>\n<p>This article is available exclusively to RTT Biotech Investor and Intelligent Investor subscribers. Subscribe with a RTTNews subscription.<\/p>\n<p>Start Free Trial<\/p>\n<p>FREE 7-Day Trial &#8211; No Payment Required<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Business News<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n        window.fbAsyncInit = function () {\n            FB.init({\n                status: true,\n                cookie: true,\n                xfbml: true\n            });\n        };\n        (function (d) {\n            var js, id = 'facebook-jssdk'; if (d.getElementById(id)) { return; }\n            js = d.createElement('script'); js.id = id; js.async = true;\n            js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js\";\n            d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(js);\n        }(document));\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>UN Chief Calls On AI Firms To &#8220;come Clean&#8221; On Environmental Impact Of Data Centers<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>2026-06-24 12:09:31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a deadly heatwave continued to grip Europe on Tuesday, UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres issued an impassioned appeal for more ambitious global action on climate change caused by fossil fuels,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/74992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pantheregroup.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}