The AI Climate Hoax — Ketan Joshi

This report, supported by a coalition of climate and digital rights organizations, interrogates the claim that AI will help solve climate change. It finds that most cited climate benefits come from older, smaller machine learning models rather than generative AI, and that the evidence for these benefits is weak. Meanwhile, big tech companies are veering sharply away from their own climate targets as data center energy consumption surges — making 'AI for climate' claims a form of greenwashing that distracts from rising fossil fuel use.