The summer of 2024 broke the record for Earths hottest day since data collection began, sparking widespread media coverage and public debate. This also happens to be the year that both Microsoft and Google , two of the leading big tech companies investing heavily in AI research and development, missed their climate targets. While this also made headlines and spurred indignation, AIs environmental impacts are still far from being common knowledge. In reality, AIs current “bigger is better”...
