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Türkiye's COP31 Presidency Launches the Antalya Pledge, Asking AI Firms to Disclose Data Centre Energy Use
COP31 president Murat Kurum announced on September 21 a voluntary Antalya Pledge on Artificial Intelligence, developed with the UN's International Telecommunication Union, asking governments and companies to disclose data centre energy consumption and shift operations to renewables. A draft circulates ahead of the Antalya summit. The framing is the news: this is the first time an AI-specific disclosure commitment is being run through the COP process rather than through national AI regulators, and it arrives while US and Chinese build-outs are projected to drive most of this decade's incremental data centre electricity demand.
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