ISO/IEC TR 20226:2025

Information technology — Artificial intelligence — Environmental sustainability aspects of AI systems

Publication date:   Jul 1, 2025

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60.60   Standard published   Jul 1, 2025

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ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial intelligence

Technical Report

35.020   Information technology (IT) in general | 13.020.20   Environmental economics. Sustainability

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Scope

This document provides an overview of the environmental sustainability aspects (e.g. workload, resource and asset utilization, carbon impact, pollution, waste, transportation, location) of AI systems during their life cycle, and related potential metrics.
NOTE 1        This document does not identify opportunities on how AI, AI applications and AI systems can improve environmental, social or economic sustainability outcomes.
NOTE 2        This document can help other projects related to AI system environmental sustainability.

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ISO/IEC TR 20226:2025
60.60 Standard published
Jul 1, 2025