India, Feb. 8 -- The age of AI is upon us.

The technology has permeated almost every facet of daily life. From cooking recipes, to designing work-out plans, writing songs and screenplays, and even writing code for complex mathematical programmes,

AI can do almost everything, even alter images.

But, if experience has taught humanity anything, it may perhaps be prudent to start counting AI's environmental costs right now instead of retrospectively five decades from now as in the case of the industrial age.

And to achieve that, one must also let go of the belief that the use of digital technology is somehow independent of resources: both human and material.

Kate Crawford in the introduction to her book Atlas of AI argued, ".artificial i...