“The Hidden Climate Cost That Comes With Everyday AI Use.” 

Wells, Caleigh. “The Hidden Climate Cost That Comes With Everyday AI Use.” Associated Press, 22 Aug. 2025, https://apnews.com/article/c6218681ffdbad5bf427b47347fddcb9

This article explains how everyday AI interactions, for example, using AI in word processors, email, or search, are backed by data centers that use energy, often from fossil fuels, and require massive amounts of water to cool. As AI becomes more pervasive, its environmental impact grows in ways most people don’t see. It’s interesting because it makes the climate cost of AI feel personal and real: not just a big-tech problem, but something that affects individual users and public infrastructure.