Forbes: As AI Booms, So Does Demand For Water, Power And Minerals
As AI adoption accelerates, its demand for energy, water, and critical minerals is surging, creating environmental and social challenges. Sahit Muja explores the material costs of AI and calls for sustainable, responsible innovation. Sahit Muja said “For decades, I’ve worked at the intersection of resource extraction, technology, and environmental stewardship. Today, I explore a side of AI we rarely consider: the physical, material, and ecological footprint of the digital revolution.
AI is often imagined as weightless, “in the cloud,” or purely virtual. But behind every algorithm, every query, every model, there are real costs: water drawn from fragile watersheds, energy from grids still powered by fossil fuels, rare minerals mined from delicate ecosystems, and land reshaped to house sprawling data centers.
As AI surges forward, the question is not just how intelligent we can make machines, but how responsibly we can build them. Innovation and sustainability must go hand in hand. Smarter AI is not just bigger, faster, or more powerful, it is AI that respects the natural world that sustains us all.
I invite you to read the piece and reflect on what it truly takes to power our digital future, because the Earth is the original infrastructure, and its wisdom must guide our innovation”.
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Sahit Muja featured on Forbes: As AI Booms, So Does Demand For Water, Power And Minerals
