add a couple more environmental impact links (#791)

Adds some focus for the UK, Australia, and the EU, to approach this from a more global standpoint. Will follow up with more links for other regions as I find them.

Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware/pulls/791
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To start learning a bit more, you can checkout the wikipedia page on [Environmental impact of artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_artificial_intelligence#Individual_level). We're very open to people contributing other explanations, links, and resources to learn more about this. Here's what we've gathered so far:
- [MIT News: Generative AIs environmental impact](https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117)
- [MIT Technology Review: We did the math on AIs energy footprint. Heres the story you havent heard.](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/)
- [MIT News: Generative AI's Environmental Impact](https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117)
- [MIT Technology Review: We did the math on AI's energy footprint. Here's the story you haven't heard.](https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1116327/ai-energy-usage-climate-footprint-big-tech/)
- [Grantham Institute: What Direct Risks Does AI Pose to the Climate and Environment](https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/explainers/what-direct-risks-does-ai-pose-to-the-climate-and-environment/)
- [UCLA: AI is Destroying Our Planet](https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/opinion-ai-is-destroying-our-planet-we-must-act)
- [The Guardian: Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions](https://web.archive.org/web/20260425032459/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/24/officials-hugely-underestimated-impact-of-ai-datacentres-on-uk-carbon-emissions)
- [KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law: The environmental costs of AI: a shake-up of the EU's twin transition](https://www.law.kuleuven.be/citip/blog/the-environmental-costs-of-ai-a-shake-up-of-the-eus-twin-transition/)
- [Australian Parliament: Impacts of AI on the environment](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Senate/Adopting_Artificial_Intelligence_AI/AdoptingAI/Report/Chapter_6_-_Impacts_of_AI_on_the_environment)
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