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Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at all

Ketan Joshi · 13 May 2026 · ketanjoshi.co ↗

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  1. Our reading

    Panic and impatience in the industry, not the technology itself, are what drive the worst environmental harms of the data centre boom.

    Their wordsThe fundamental drivers of this change are panic and impatience, and that is what is behind the worst impacts of data centre growth, including a material risk to decarbonisation and climate action.

  2. Our reading

    Anthropic does not meaningfully prioritize climate, environmental, or air pollution concerns despite its public image.

    Their wordsIt was already clear a while ago that Anthropic mostly do not care about climate, environment or air pollution in any material way, even if they care a little bit more about bad PR than Elon Musk does.

  3. Our reading

    The environmental harm caused by data centres comes from how the industry chooses to build them, not from anything inherent to computing infrastructure.

    Their wordsthere is nothing fundamentally inherent to the concept of a building full of computers that causes choking air pollution, water impacts and climate change.