A number of key digital infrastructure businesses have joined with governments to form the 'Coalition for Sustainable AI.'

Announced at the AI Action Summit in Paris, France, the group claims to seek to align AI development (both hardware and software) with environmental considerations. It is part of the Coalition on Digital Environmental Sustainability, announced in 2021.

The Coalition has no binding nor financial commitment attached to it.

Members include data center operators Data4, Verne, EcoDataCenter, Equinix, Sepia Infrastructure, and Telehouse. Chip designers Nvidia and AMD are members, as are cloud providers OVHcloud and IBM. Schneider Electric, Philips, Eviden, Orange, and AI company Mistral are also members.

None of the hyperscale cloud providers are part of the coalition, nor are US AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic.

Numerous NGOs and universities are part of the project, which is supported by the UN as well as the governments of France, the UK, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, India, Italy, Kenya, South Korea, Morocco, and Norway.

The coalition comes as AI infrastructure development has dramatically increased the power consumption of the data center sector, with the industry increasingly turning to gas and even coal to train ever larger AI models.