The amount of e-waste caused by AI is underestimated: we can’t only include the servers

When enterprise IT calculates the likely environmental and ROI impact from replacing data center systems, it fails to account for much of it, and also tends to discard hardware far too quickly, according to a report from the Basel Action Network (BAN). BAN is an NGO that polices the application of the 1989 United Nations Basel Convention , which restricts the trade of hazardous waste between more developed countries and less developed countries. “Previous quantitative AI e-waste estimates have u