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Washington, D.C.
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I run HEATED, a weekly-ish newsletter devoted to climate accountability journalism. Philly-based. She/her.

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We need to press Big Tech on their AI partnerships with Big Oil

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By Emily Atkin
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Microsoft, Amazon, and Google all have aggressive climate commitments—and AI partnerships with oil companies. Source: Getty Images Lots of people—way more than usual!—are reading and sharing last week’s article about a new study finding that Big Oil’s use of AI to increase production could trigger 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than the emissions from AI data centers. The attention is promising.
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AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought

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By Emily Atkin
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The Big Spring Refinery is seen on October 04, 2023 in Big Spring, Texas. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. Until this point, the public conversation about AI and climate change has been laser-focused on the vast amount of electricity used to power the technology. For good reason. Over the last few years, the AI boom has rapidly increased society’s appetite for fossil fuels via the electricity consumption of data centers.
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The fossil fuel money behind the GOP’s wildfire blame game

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By Emily Atkin
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The sun rises behind the U.S. Capitol as smoke from wildfires in Canada fills the air on July 17, 2026. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images) If you, like me, felt angry, sad, and helplessas explosive Canadian wildfires blanketed parts of the United States in smoke this past weekend, it may be heartening to know that most Americans accept the reality of what’s going on.
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