Can we finally put a stake in the heart of the climate benefits of the AI bubble argument?

For as long as people have been noticing the environmental issues associated with the AI bubble, commentators have been supplying articles like this despite the massive fallacy that's obvious as soon as you take a serious look at the problem. Andrew Beebe writing for Heatmap. The Future Climate Benefits of AI Are Worth the Risks For three years the entire conversation about artificial intelligence in the climate tech and clean energy communities has been about demand. This, of course, is reasonable. The scale of what the world is building right now has no precedent. Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft together spent more than $420 billion on data center infrastructure in 2025, a number dwarfed by the $745 billion they’re expected to spend in 2026. The McKinsey Global Institute puts the global data center buildout through 2030 at $7 trillion — more than the New Deal, the Marshall Plan, and the Apollo program combined. About 15% to 20% of that unfathomable spending is going exclusively…