Claims that #AI can help fix #climate dismissed as #greenwashing
#Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown.
Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to #machinelearning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector’s explosive growth of gas-guzzling #datacenters, the analysis of 154 statements found.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report

Claims that #AI can help fix #climate dismissed as #greenwashing
#Tech companies are conflating traditional artificial intelligence with generative AI when claiming the energy-hungry technology could help avert climate breakdown.
Most claims that AI can help avert climate breakdown refer to #machinelearning and not the energy-hungry chatbots and image generation tools driving the sector’s explosive growth of gas-guzzling #datacenters, the analysis of 154 statements found.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/17/tech-companies-traditional-ai-generative-climate-breakdown-report