Green Attacks on Energy Guzzling Artificial Intelligence Ramp Up
19 hours ago Eric Worrall
Essay by Eric Worrall
Greens have noticed AI is incompatible with their beloved renewable transition. And they don’t like it one bit.
Inside Meta’s fight to change climate reality… all so it can frantically expand a risky AI program
Everyone is ignoring the science on what Meta’s generative AI investment really costs, even though there’s no evidence of a single, significant societal benefit.
KETAN JOSHI
OCT 3, 2025
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Big tech is being pulled in a few directions at once. In the US, where most tech companies are headquartered, cosying up to a fascist, climate-denying government means making hollow, technosolutionist noises about carbon capture and nuclear fusion. But for the rest of the world, and particularly in Europe, climate change still exists. Now that these companies have become existentially dependent on data centre expansionism, required to power generative systems that require far more power to deliver worse results, they have to refresh their greenwashing techniques, and that means eroding measured reality from the ground up.
It is not clear what any of this is meant to actually be for. It was recently revealed that Meta explicitly allows its chatbots to develop “sensual” relationships with children, and offer fabricated medical misinformation. Meta illegally downloaded a torrent of millions of books (including mine), to help train its models. Private chats with chatbots were inadvertently made public, revealing sensitive information. Meta’s chatbots are designed to present as real humans, resulting in the rapid spread of mental health crises and even some tragic deaths.
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