Forum: Limits to using data and AI to boost food security

I refer to the Opinion piece "How AI can strengthen food resilience" (March 17). While I appreciate that artificial intelligence (AI) can help to strengthen Singapore's food resilience, I am disappointed that the authors did not also provide its limitations, and more importantly, other critical factors that can severely impact Singapore's food resilience. Take Singapore's vertical farms for vegetables and fish as an illustration. These vertical farms are energy intensive. Indoor plants need artificial lighting and environment control; indoor fish farms, otherwise known as recirculating aquaculture systems, need recirculating pumps, filtration systems, oxygenation systems, and so on, all of which are energy intensive.