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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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9 Sept 2026

Our readingCloud providers' AI tools are being used by oil companies to increase fossil fuel production.

Their wordsAmazon's technology explicitly helps oil companies increase production.

↗We asked Big Tech about AI’s fossil fuel problem. The responses were atrocious.heated.world 2nd of 3 in this piece