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ketan@climatejustice.social ("Ketan Joshi") wrote:

It takes 0.0001 seconds to realise the AI-bros are lying about "extinction risk" as a marketing trick, given how none of them seem bothered about the deadly fossil fuels they've become obsessed with using to power their data centres.

Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2-equivalent emissions with estimated annual GHGs from Amazon and OpenAI fossil-fuelled data centres, showing the data centres (red bars) would emit as much or more than many countries' entire power grids.
Chart comparing NT annual power-sector emissions (Sector 1.A.1.a Public Electricity and Heat Production) from 1990–2024 to an approximate "Project Ares" estimate: a grey area rises to about 3 megatonnes CO2e and a tall red bar at the right far exceeds recent years.
Siemens' new data centre gas turbines would emit 74–188 MtCO2e per year — a range comparable to the total annual emissions of countries from Pakistan down to Chile, shown as a descending colored bar chart.
Bar chart comparing Microsoft's new fossil‑fuelled data centres (three projects by Chevron, Monarch, Crusoe totaling 16 MtCO2e) with selected countries' power‑sector emissions: Greece 17, France 17, Peru 16, Belarus 14, Ireland 8, Sri Lanka 6, New Zealand 4, Portugal 3, Denmark 3.