Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions
2026-04-24 · AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian
UK officials quietly admitted they underestimated AI datacentre carbon emissions by over 100x — because nothing says 'we've got this under control' like being off by two orders of magnitude. The revised figures now show AI's energy appetite could seriously worsen the climate emergency. Turns out the real hallucination was the government's original math.