The Pause Button
Data center moratoriums expose the grid problem behind the AI boom
The Prompt Box Is Part of the Energy System: Why Sustainable AI Is Not Just a Data Center Problem
AI’s environmental impact depends not only on data centers, chips, and power supply, but on how people use it. Sustainable AI requires purposeful prompting, right-sized models, less low-value output, and better “demand architecture” for computation.
Ian Todreas
