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Ketan Joshi

What Ketan Joshi thinks about data centers

@ketan-joshi · 19 positions · 0 changes of mind

Freelance climate and energy analyst in Oslo, writing on Europe, the US and Australia.

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5 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ketan Joshi has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingPanic 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.

    ↗Why Anthropic’s ultra-dirty deal shouldn’t surprise you at allketanjoshi.co 1st of 3 in this piece

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

    infrastructureclimate change

    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

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  5. Our readingAI data centres cannot be meaningfully reformed without a fundamental change of course and ideology in the industry.

    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

  7. Our readingData centres are being built in such number, size and speed that the industry cannot realistically be reformed.

    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

  8. 1 day earlier

  9. Our readingData centres will become the majority driver of electricity demand growth in Australia's National Electricity Market.

    energy

    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