"The AI boom has everything the carbon traders have ever dreamed of — a huge increase in fossil fuels to power data centres, vast amounts of money, commitments to “net zero”, and a complete disregard of the impacts on either people or the environment"
Ketan Joshi
A long post (partly) about carbon offsets and AI.
Carbon traders love AI, because it's rapidly expanding and very polluting.
Sure, it's making the climate crisis worse. But it creates demand for carbon credits.
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Featuring Milton Friedman, Koch Industries, the Cato Institute, the Institute of Economic Affairs, Eric Schmidt, and Wildlife Works’ Jeremy Freund.
