6 July 2026, DCpedia, Marco Verzijl

Article: No sustainable AI without measurable evidence (machine translated from Dutch)

AI is often presented as something abstract. As software. Like
intelligence in the cloud. But the reality is physical. AI runs on data
centers, GPUs, power grids, cooling, water, raw materials, chips, cables,
buildings and ultimately waste streams. The "cloud" is not a cloud, but
infrastructure. And infrastructure has a footprint.