How Artificial Intelligence Is Both Driving and Derailing Decarbonization

Will Artificial Intelligence be the downfall of the clean energy transition, or the catalyst that makes it possible? The answer is complicated, and somehow contains a bit of both. Training the large language models that power AI is incredibly energy-intensive, and as models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek become increasingly complex, each individual query can rack up a serious ecological footprint.   Already, the AI boom has seriously compromised tech sector commitments to reach carbon neutrality. Last year, Google admitted that the company’s…