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Big Tech Accused of Abandoning Climate Pledges to Fuel AI
Original: # AI # tech Welcome to the Plunderdome: How Big Tech Sold Out Its Climate Pledges to Power AI Amazon and the rest of the
Criticism is mounting that major technology companies, including Amazon, are walking back their climate commitments to meet the enormous energy demands of AI. The industry, once promoted as aspirationally green, is reportedly adding heavily polluting power sources such as smoking chimneys and fossil fuel plants to its data center facilities to churn out more computing power for AI workloads.
Why now: Growing concern that the AI boom is driving Big Tech to abandon its green energy promises.
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