Circular economy strategies and their potential impacts on GAI-related e-waste generation. Credit: Nature Computational Science (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43588-024-00712-6 A team of urban environmentalists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Urban Environment, working with a colleague from Reichman University in Israel, has attempted to estimate the amount of e-waste that will be generated over the next several years due to the implementation of generative AI applications. In their stud...