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Why the climate promises of AI sound a lot like carbon offsets

James Temple

created: April 10, 2025, 11:52 p.m. | updated: April 15, 2025, 9:24 a.m.

The International Energy Agency states in a new report that AI could eventually reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, possibly by much more than the boom in energy-guzzling data centers pushes them up. The finding echoes a point that prominent figures in the AI sector have made as well to justify, at least implicitly, the gigawatts’ worth of…

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