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Greening Mobile AI?

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: Mobile AI is very much a work in progress. No better time at the outset, then, to consider its environmental implications. As mobile media and communication are woven together with AI, what are their entanglements—and what are the implications for the environment? First, given the slow progress on concerted effort over many years to tackle reuse, repair and ‘greening’ of mobile phones, as well as other mobile technology devices, and associated information and communication technologies, and the research and critique engaging with this endeavour—it is critical to consider the best focus as we move into the AI phone and beyond-the-phone future. Second, the article dissects key trends and issues—hot spots—in the environmental implications of the wider networks, infrastructures, systems and ecologies where mobiles and AI are being deployed in combination—but their ecological implications deserve greater attention. Third, the article proposes priority elements for the research and policy agenda in greening mobile AI.

Source: Mobile Media & Communication

DOI: 10.1177/20501579261486485

Author: Gerard Goggin

Institution: Western Sydney University

Language: English

Topic: Green IT and Sustainability

Subfield: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Responsible consumption and production, Industry, innovation and infrastructure, Climate action

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,900