Greenhouse gases from data center boom could outpace entire nations
2026-04-23 · Ars Technica
The AI industry's insatiable hunger for compute is turning into an environmental disaster, with data centers from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Microsoft set to belch out more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases annually — rivaling entire nations. Turns out "saving the world with AI" requires destroying it first. Nothing says innovation like building coal-plant-scale infrastructure to power chatbots that confidently make things up.