What’s Wrong with the Global Digital Compact?

... artificial intelligence require rare earth elements, which are often mined in environmentally harmful ways. The cooling of data centers calls for huge amounts of water. Additionally, data centers consume extremely large amounts of energy. In the context of Internet governance, the GDC underscores that “Internet regulation should remain inherently global” with the participation of governments, the private sector and civil society, as well as other stakeholders. This broad formulation does not explicitly address the internationalization ...