The Environment
- Data centers are multiplying across the globe drawing enormous quantities of power and water
- from communities already under resource strain.
- The raw materials required for AI hardware involve
- environmentally damaging extraction processes
- energy-intensive manufacturing
- growing mountains of electronic waste
"This is not an abstraction for the Drupal community. As an ecosystem that powers a substantial share of the world's web infrastructure - from small nonprofits to national governments - the collective energy footprint of Drupal-based sites and the hosting decisions behind them carries real weight. Organizations within the community have begun pushing for greener hosting choices, leaner architectures, and more deliberate thinking about when AI features add genuine value versus when they simply add compute."