🌿 Environment Aug 17, 2026 · Matteo Civillini

“Dangerous consequences” – how AI’s climate framing lets Big Tech off the hook

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“Dangerous consequences” – how AI’s climate framing lets Big Tech off the hook
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As tech giants race to build out AI and the sprawling infrastructure it depends on, climate concerns have tended to focus on one thing: power-hungry data centres.



Their electricity use is growing so fast that by 2030, it’s projected to be nearly three times more than the combined annual consumption of Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nigeria. With the explosion in the construction of data centres driving new investment in fossil fuels, especially in the US, greenhouse gas emissions generated by

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