AI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?
Artificial intelligence is often associated with ludicrous amounts of electricity, and therefore planet-heating emissions, expended to create nonsensical or misleading slop that is of meagre value to humanity. Some AI advocates at a major UN climate summit are posing an alternative view, though – what if AI could help us solve, rather than worsen, the climate crisis? The “AI for good” argument has been made repeatedly at the Cop30 talks in Belém, Brazil, with supporters arguing AI can be used to lower, rather th…
Even weather forecasting, including the mapping of impending climate-driven disasters such as flooding and wildfires, can be improved in this way, according to Maria João Sousa, executive director, Climate Change AI, one of the groups behind the new initiative.
The “AI for good” argument has been made repeatedly at the Cop30 talks in Belém, Brazil, with supporters arguing AI can be used to lower, rather than raise, emissions through a series of efficiencies that can spread through areas of our lives such as food, transport and energy that cause much of the pollution dangerously heating our planet.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2025-11-17
Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-0103, v2: “AI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?.” Truvace, 2026-07-12. /record/TRV-2026-0103 (accessed at citation time). sha256 35a589e5ea6e734b…
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