Big Tech’s ‘AI Will Save The Planet’ Claims Are a Steaming Pile of Unsubstantiated Horse Shit
Oh look, another fucking week, another truckload of sanctimonious bullshit from the same bastards who brought you surveillance capitalism and the 27-hour workday. This time, Google and Microsoft have decided that their electricity-guzzling, water-wasting, planet-incinerating AI data centers are actually good for the environment. That’s right, the same shit that consumes enough power to run a small country is now going to save us all from climate change. And they expect us to believe this without a single scrap of actual evidence. The sheer fucking audacity.
According to these corporate wankers, AI is going to optimize everything from airline fuel efficiency to predicting the fucking weather. Because apparently, humans have never heard of “math” before. They’re claiming it’ll design new materials, reduce food waste, and optimize energy grids. How? Magic fairy dust and unicorn piss, presumably. They parade out these grandiose claims like a dog showing off the turd it just left on your carpet, but when you ask for hard numbers—actual, verifiable, “here’s how much CO2 we saved” data—they suddenly start staring at their shoes and mumbling about “potential” and “future applications.” It’s the same song and dance they used when they promised social media would bring world peace. How’d that work out, you absolute fucknuts?
The best part? These assholes are burning through precious water resources to cool their massive data centers while simultaneously telling us they’re “water positive.” That’s like me claiming I’m a vegetarian while deep-throating a bacon cheeseburger. The cognitive dissonance is so thick you could spread it on toast. They build these monstrous facilities in drought-stricken areas, suck the local water supply dry, then have the balls to say they’re helping the environment because their algorithms might, theoretically, someday, possibly help someone else use less water somewhere else. Maybe. If the stars align and Mercury isn’t in retrograde.
This is greenwashing so transparent you could use it as fucking window cleaner. It’s a convenient narrative that lets them keep expanding their empire of silicon and copper while wrapping themselves in a cloak of environmental righteousness. “Don’t look at our carbon footprint the size of a small moon—look at this shiny PowerPoint about how AI could potentially optimize something vaguely related to sustainability!” The only thing they’re successfully optimizing is their own profit margins while the planet continues its merry trip to hell in a handbasket.
Sure, maybe—maybe—there are a handful of niche applications where AI could help with climate modeling or something. But the scale of impact is so fucking minuscule compared to the resources these systems devour that it’s like using a flamethrower to light a candle and calling it energy efficient. The evidence is thinner than the excuses I give users when I delete their files. Speaking of which…
The other day, some middle-management oxygen-thief waddles into my office asking if our new AI assistant can make his department “more sustainable.” I told him it absolutely could—I could configure it to automatically delete all his pointless fucking spreadsheets, terminate his video conference privileges, and send his entire team home permanently. That’d reduce their carbon footprint to zero overnight. He didn’t find it funny. I don’t find his existence funny. Same fucking difference.
Bottom line: Big Tech’s claims that AI will save the planet are about as credible as my promise to users that “I’ll look into it.” It’s a load of bollocks designed to make them feel better while they continue turning the Earth into their personal mining operation. Show me the data or shut the fuck up. Preferably both.
Read the full article here: https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-says-generative-ai-will-save-the-planet-it-doesnt-offer-much-proof/
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