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Generative AI is a climate disaster
Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share
It can be easy to get lost in numbers, but what they point to is an obvious truth: generative AI is an environmental disaster that’s accelerating natural destruction and the climate crisis at the very moment alarms are sounding about the precious little time that remains to turn things around. The tech industry wants to head off public opposition before it becomes a real threat to its bottom line, but the fight against data centers and the generative AI tools they power is gearing up to be essential to determine who gets to chart our social and technological future. Will tech billionaires be allowed to accelerate climate chaos for a technology that, in practice, has few real beneficial use cases, or will we finally pull them from their thrones and reclaim true democratic authority over our lives?
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