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• Published Subscription 2 Feb 2026

  Toward Sustainable Intelligence: A Framework for Green AI Adoption

  By Priya B. Darji

  Abstract: The rapid expansion of Artificial Intelligence has shattered the illusion of the cloud as an ethereal entity, revealing a massive physical infrastructure with a staggering environmental price tag. The traditional Red AI paradigm – where success is measured solely by accuracy through brute-force scaling – has created an unsustainable trajectory. Training a single large-scale model like GPT-3 requires 1,287 MWh of electricity, while the necessary cooling systems evaporate millions of …

  Published in International Journal of Distributed Computing and Technology · Vol. 12, Issue 1, 2026 · pp. 17–23 Read article →