ai climate

Big technology firms are increasingly asserting that artificial intelligence can be a major weapon against climate change — but a new, data-driven analysis argues those claims are muddled, often unsupported, and in some cases amount to greenwashing as companies expand the energy-hungry...

Tech-industry claims that generative AI and large language models (LLMs) are a decisive lever against climate change have moved rapidly from hopeful rhetoric to corporate orthodoxy — and a new, careful analysis shows much of that rhetoric is greenwashing in plain clothes. Background: what the...

Big tech’s climate narrative has shifted from heroic problem‑solver to a contested public relations front: AI can help cut emissions, the companies say—yet independent analysis now accuses the industry of conflating old, energy-efficient machine‑learning use cases with the new, energy‑hungry era...

Tech companies’ public case that artificial intelligence can fix the climate now faces a sustained and systematic credibility test: a new analysis led by energy analyst Ketan Joshi finds that many of the green claims being used to defend rapidly expanding AI infrastructure are vague, poorly...