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Ketan Joshi

What Ketan Joshi thinks about energy

@ketan-joshi · 21 positions · On ppll ↗

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

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

  1. Our readingThe climate impact from NVIDIA's AI products in 2025 is comparable to that of a major state-owned coal company.

    Russiasemiconductors

    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

  2. 5 weeks earlier

  3. Our readingDelaying the phase-out of coal and gas power plants causes far more deaths than phasing them out quickly.

    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

  5. Our readingRenewable 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

  6. 6 weeks earlier

  7. Our readingEfficiency gains in a growth-driven industry tend to be absorbed into even greater expansion rather than reducing net resource use.

    Google

    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

  9. Our readingGenerative AI's climate harm comes mainly from wasteful system design and forced-on features, not from the computational cost of individual queries.

    Googledesign

    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

  10. 10 days earlier

  11. Our readingThe erosion of trust and shared reality directly benefits high-polluting industries.

    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

  13. Our readingGenerative AI systems have no built-in drive toward truth and accuracy, unlike people or institutions.

    LLMs

    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

  15. Our readingGenuinely 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

  16. 7 weeks earlier

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

    data centers

    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

  19. Our readingIf Australia's renewable rollout weakens, coal and gas plants will run longer and generate more, well past their planned shutdown dates.

    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