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                <a href="https://clean-integration.simplecast.com/episodes/shoalei-ren" target="_blank">SimpleCast</a>.
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                 by the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oecd-ai_how-much-water-does-ai-consume-the-public-activity-7135961877473325056-QMM5">OECD AI Policy Observatory</a> to mark its participation
                 in the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (COP28);  
                my invited standpoint article <b><a href="https://sustain.algorithmwatch.org/en/water-is-the-new-co2/" target="_blank">"Water is the New CO2"</a></b> was published at <a href="https://algorithmwatch.org/en/" target="_blank">AlgorithmWatch</a>'s <a href="https://algorithmwatch.org/en/sustain-magazine-november-2023/" target="_blank">SustAIn Magazine</a>.
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                 I was invited to speak about our research on AI sustainability at the panel <a href="https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/19989/595274">"Is generative AI sustainable? Learn about its environmental impact"</a> (with Prof. Sajjad Moazeni from the University of Washington) organized by <a href="https://www.techtarget.com/">TechTarget</a>.
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