Ketan Joshi
Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia.
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Their wordswe produced our own conservative estimate, finding that the climate impact from 2025's use of NVIDIA'S AI products is on par with the state-owned Russian Coal company.
↗NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – reportketanjoshi.co 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordswe explore and contest all these claims, which we contend are not supported by strong evidence.
↗NVIDIA’S AI Climate hoax – reportketanjoshi.co 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIf we don't stop using these power stations ASAP, the number of people killed by them will be far higher than if we phase them out quickly.
↗How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely polluteketanjoshi.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Renewable energy offset schemes share the same fundamental flaw as carbon offsets in general.
Their wordsThis renewable energy offsetting suffers from the same fundamental problem as all offsets.
↗How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely polluteketanjoshi.co 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsGreenwashing, particularly when embedded deep into legislation, kills people.
↗How Australia’s data centre lobby is winning its fight to freely polluteketanjoshi.co 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIt is actually pretty likely that it was Google's efficiency actions that enabled their total energy consumption to increase.
↗Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloatketanjoshi.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWhat is happening is that GenAI's climate harm comes from the system design, such as Google's AI overview triggering constantly whether users want it or not, in addition to significantly worse digital bloat tools dominating overconsumption.
↗Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloatketanjoshi.co 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBoth hide the fact the company is simply choosing the climate-wrecking road, consciously.
↗Google’s exponential path to climate-wrecking digital bloatketanjoshi.co 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 10 days earlier
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Their wordsHigh-polluting industries benefit directly and obviously from the collapse of trust, shared reality and information quality.
↗How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slopketanjoshi.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsGenerative AI has no internal, designed momentum towards truth and accuracy (beyond the absurdly diminishing returns of energy-hungry multi-layered LLMs), but a person or an institution can (and should).
↗How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slopketanjoshi.co 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Our reading
Genuinely valuing truth, honesty and climate action logically entails opposing generative AI.
Their wordsBeing pro-correctness, anti-theft and anti-fossil fuels automatically places you in an aggressively anti-generative-AI position.
↗How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slopketanjoshi.co 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 6 weeks earlier
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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.
↗Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at allketanjoshi.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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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.
↗Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at allketanjoshi.co 2nd of 3 in this piece
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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.
↗Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at allketanjoshi.co 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 12 days earlier
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Their wordsReformation is impossible for AI data centres, at least, not without a massive change of course and an ideological reckoning.
↗The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fearsketanjoshi.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe only solution is preventing the disease, not treating the symptoms.
↗The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fearsketanjoshi.co 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThere are simply too many data centres being built, and they're too big, being built too fast.
↗The exact wrong lesson to learn from data centre infrasound fearsketanjoshi.co 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 1 day earlier
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Their wordsEven if a small fraction of this pipeline ends up operational, data centres will drive far more than 50% of demand growth in the NEM.
↗Australia’s data centre growth proportion now matches the USketanjoshi.co 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIn the face of weakened renewable roll-out in Australia, the most likely outcome is simply that coal and gas just generate more, and for many more years past their shut down date.
↗Australia’s data centre growth proportion now matches the USketanjoshi.co 2nd of 2 in this piece