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AI RANA-AI-505
The Ecological Impact of AI
Course code: RANA-AI-505 Β· Catalog #RANA-AI-505
Understand AI's real-world footprint β energy, water, and emissions β and what it means for you, for business, and for the planet.
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- AI 104: Using AI Safely
- AI 201: Applied AI With Anthropic Claude
- AI 202: Applied AI with OpenAI ChatGPT
- AI 203: Applied AI with Microsoft Copilot
- AI 204: Applied AI with Google Gemini
- AI 301: Advanced AI Techniques (Hands-On)
- AI 302: Advanced AI: APIs, Agents & Governance
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- AI 101: Novice Guide to AI
- AI 102: Compare and Select the Right AI Platform
- AI 103: Intro to AI Prompts
- AI 104: Using AI Safely
- AI 201: Applied AI With Anthropic Claude
- AI 202: Applied AI with OpenAI ChatGPT
- AI 203: Applied AI with Microsoft Copilot
- AI 204: Applied AI with Google Gemini
- AI 301: Advanced AI Techniques (Hands-On)
- AI 302: Advanced AI: APIs, Agents & Governance
- AI 303: AI for Executives β Cost, ROI, Security & Oversight
- AI 401: Ethical AI
- AI 402: AI & You
- AI 403: The Big Picture (AGI)
- AI 501: AI and the Economy
- AI 502: The Future of Your Work
- AI 503: Deepfakes, Scams & Digital Self-Defense
- AI 504: AI & Money
- AI 505: The Ecological Impact of AI
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Subscribe monthlyWhat you'll learn β competencies
Pass each module's knowledge check to earn these competencies (view in the competency framework β):
- The hidden footprint
- The power bill: training and inference
- Carbon and the honest counter-fact
- Water, land and the neighbours
- Hardware, minerals and e-waste
- The Jevons trap
- Data centers in space
- Night sky, astronomy and Kessler
- Weighing the tradeoffs
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Course modules
- Section 01: The Footprint Nobody Sees
- Section 02: The Power Bill: Training, Inference & the Grid
- Section 03: Carbon, and the Honest Counter-Fact
- Section 04: Thirsty Machines: Water, Land & the Neighbours
- Section 05: The Hardware Mountain: Chips, Minerals & E-Waste
- Section 06: Does Efficiency Save Us? The Jevons Trap
- Section 07: Escape to Orbit: The Case for Data Centers in Space
- Section 08: The New Costs of the Sky: Night Sky, Astronomy & Kessler
- Section 09: Weighing It: Tradeoffs Without a Verdict
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Any one AI 2xx Applied course (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or Gemini)
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