Artificial intelligence (AI) systems—from chatbots to advanced scientific modeling—run inside vast buildings filled with specialized computers called data centers. These facilities store data, run internet services, and train powerful AI models. As the digital economy expands, so does the physical infrastructure needed to support it.

Air pollution continues to be one of the most serious—and often invisible—threats to human health worldwide, says the State of Global Air Report 2025: A Report on Air Pollution and Its Role in the World’s Leading Causes of Death. The State of Global Air (SoGA) report is widely considered one of the most reliable and authoritative sources of air quality data in the world.

In January 2021, the United Nations designated the next 10 years as the “ocean decade.” A key goal is for nation to work together to protect the well-being and biodiversity of 30% of marine, coastal, terrestrial and inland water areas by 2030, a plan known as “30 x 30.”

By applying artificial intelligence (AI) to decades of satellite imagery, scientists have, for the first time, mapped the scale, speed, and distribution of floating algae worldwide.

In 2020, the Pew Charitable Trusts and SYSTEMIQ published Breaking the Plastic Wave, a pioneering report that detailed how global plastic pollution was projected to nearly triple by 2040 unless bold action was taken to significantly curb pollution.