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pith:4TJP53U5

pith:2024:4TJP53U56EZQ5V7OUMXR2CNJRF

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Environmental Burden of United States Data Centers in the Artificial Intelligence Era

Eric Bell, Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi, Francesca Dominici, Gianluca Guidi, Jonathan Gilmour, Kevin Butler, Scott Delaney

arxiv:2411.09786 v1 · 2024-11-14 · cs.CY

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4 papers in Pith

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How Hyper-Datafication Impacts the Sustainability Costs in Frontier AI

Recasting AI Data Centers as Engines for Carbon Removal

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First computed	2026-07-05T09:35:38.220339Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

e4d2feee9df1330ed7eea32f1d09a9896fecb36417786c6e9e8d87ef6e314dd8

Aliases

arxiv: 2411.09786 · arxiv_version: 2411.09786v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.09786 · pith_short_12: 4TJP53U56EZQ · pith_short_16: 4TJP53U56EZQ5V7O · pith_short_8: 4TJP53U5

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4TJP53U56EZQ5V7OUMXR2CNJRF \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: e4d2feee9df1330ed7eea32f1d09a9896fecb36417786c6e9e8d87ef6e314dd8

Canonical record JSON

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    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2024-11-14T19:55:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8f08c12d8311d3a6a8a567180d95399ebe2830a2f5e619f1b046a84723648470"
  },
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  "source": {
    "id": "2411.09786",
    "kind": "arxiv",
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  }
}