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China’sArtificial Intelligence Industry as a Carbon-Linked Production System: Embodied Emissions, Structural Paths and Demand-Side Drivers

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is commonly assessed through the electricity used by models and data centres, leaving the carbon transferred through the wider production system insufficiently resolved. We disaggregate China’s AI industry from the broader information and communication technology sector and construct comparable 31-sector environmentally extended input–output accounts for 2015, 2017, 2020 and 2023. Embodied-emission accounting is integrated with linkage analysis, structural path analysis and structura…

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An input–output study found China's AI-related embodied CO2 emissions rose from 140.03 Mt in 2015 to 324.37 Mt in 2023, with indirect supply-chain emissions exceeding direct ones.

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  1. Systemsdoi:10.3390/systems14081000
    Peer-reviewed2026-08-16

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Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2589, v1: “China’sArtificial Intelligence Industry as a Carbon-Linked Production System: Embodied Emissions, Structural Paths and Demand-Side Drivers.” Truvace, 2026-11-12. /record/TRV-2026-2589 (accessed on the day you copy it). sha256 06b0c7895c77fef1…

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