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ISSUE 001

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Full-Stack AI Resource Ledgers

Require major AI services to report energy, water, hardware, land, and grid impacts across training and inference, with location and time resolution. A full-stack ledger would let customers and communities compare systems, expose burden shifting, and reward efficiency improvements that annual carbon claims obscure.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

IEA provides a data-driven energy–AI baseline; the UN panel identifies environmental and systems impacts as a central global evidence challenge.

Source ledger

Read the sources.

  1. S01
    Energy and AI

    IEA report / published 2025-04-10 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI

    UN scientific report / published 2026-07-01 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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