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Ketan Joshi

What Ketan Joshi thinks about energy

@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 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

  2. 6 weeks earlier

  3. 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

  4. 10 days earlier

  5. 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

  7. 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

  8. 7 weeks earlier

  9. 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