About the Series
Leaders of the world’s largest tech companies have for years promised that their products, business models, and personal fortunes would solve the mounting climate crisis. But in this series we show how Silicon Valley executives and the powerful companies they run not only are failing to deliver on their promises, they’re actively making the odds of catastrophic climate breakdown worse.
In This Series
Jensen Huang gives "a shout-out for Secretary Chris Wright" as Nvidia and Trump administration partner on a massive AI buildout.
The tech giant was in Rio de Janeiro hawking AI software to fossil fuel firms just days before crucial climate crisis negotiations in the Amazon.
Tax records reveal that the billionaire’s foundation has donated for years to Lomborg’s Copenhagen Consensus Center.
Falsehoods about the flooding in Valencia last year were seen by millions on social media, new research finds.
The government has signed vast deals with gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants.
The ChatGPT creator hired John McCarrick, a gas-loving former Trump energy official, to guide how the company will source huge quantities of power for its colossal supercomputers.
Lobbyists are pushing for the UK’s AI boom to be fuelled by gas.
It is “outrageous” that the richest companies in the world are being allowed to use fossil fuels to power AI, campaigners say.
These industry players and allies push a misleading narrative the Trump administration now parrots.
U.S. “corporate titans” are being allowed to build energy intensive data centres on British soil.
Residents call for more transparency around “hyperscale” data center announced last month for Twiggs County.
San Francisco-based developers launch publicity drive to soothe local concerns over giant project.
MSN hosted AI-generated content that cited non-existent climate experts and institutions.
Opponents of Project Sail say proposed planning laws have been weakened by industry lobbying.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told an AI conference that data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear. Ruth Porat said his “comments were fantastic.”
Public records reviewed by DeSmog show developers worked to dilute draft planning rule in Coweta County.
DeSmog reveals that Big Oil says they’re using AI to produce more fossil fuels, while utilities are exploring how “AI agents” could take over key power grid functions.
A massive data center at xAI’s controversial site in Memphis, Tennessee is emitting huge plumes of pollution, according to footage recorded by an environmental watchdog group.
State may be “rubber stamping” some air pollution permits, according to new report on the boom.
With a federal election looming, reps from Amazon and TC Energy discuss how a new Pierre Poilievre government could slash bureaucracy ‘more quickly’ than Trump.
An AI-fossil fuel axis is forming in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia as AI advocates pledge an endless need for energy — spelling disaster for the climate.
Local officials are considering developer Balico’s plans to build the biggest gas-fired power plant in the U.S. in over a decade.
Utilities asked EPA chief Lee Zeldin to unleash AI growth by scrapping carbon capture deadlines and other fossil fuel regulations, passing costs onto consumers.
The tech billionaire is invigorating groups in the U.S. and Europe aiming to sabotage climate action, a DeSmog media analysis shows.
A Louisiana utility has dragged its feet on renewables. Now, a proposed Meta data center might create an “urgent” push for dirty power instead.
Tech firms like Amazon and Google ‘have enormous responsibility’ for driving fossil fuel expansions, climate expert argues.
Peter Thiel, JD Vance’s former boss, also expresses confusion on climate, supporting expanded fossil fuel use while appearing unclear on the consequences.
