🌿 Environment 1d ago · Molly Taft, WIRED

AI could help fossil fuel companies create more emissions

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AI could help fossil fuel companies create more emissions
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The emissions from powering data centers rightly get a lot of attention. But new research from former Microsoft sustainability workers cautions that the way artificial intelligence enhances productivity in the oil and gas industry could be much more damaging to the planet.



Published last week in the journal npj Climate Action, the research finds that AI use could significantly increase global energy emissions simply by enabling the fossil fuel industry to produce more oil and gas. At the low

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