Francesca Dominici

2 months ago | nature.com | Gianluca Guidi |Francesca Dominici |Gabriel Dance |Lucas R. F. Henneman |Edgar Castro |Falco J. Bargagli-Stoffi

AbstractBitcoin mines—massive computing clusters generating cryptocurrency tokens—consume vast amounts of electricity. The amount of fine particle (PM2.5) air pollution created because of their electricity consumption and its effect on environmental health is pending. In this study, we located the 34 largest mines in the United States in 2022, identified the electricity-generating plants that responded to them, and pinpointed communities most harmed by Bitcoin mine-attributable air pollution.

Feb 19, 2025 | nature.com | Serina Chang |Samantha Vanderslott |Elizaveta Semenova |Oliver Watson |Abhishek Dasgupta |Samuel V. Scarpino | +14 more

AbstractInfectious disease threats to individual and public health are numerous, varied and frequently unexpected. Artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies, which are already supporting human decision making in economics, medicine and social science, have the potential to transform the scope and power of infectious disease epidemiology.